Project Management Hacks

APRIL 28, 2016

Have you ever considered the public sector and government for your next career move? Governments face interesting problems and that means there are opportunities to deliver new projects. government to launching his own venture, GovLoop. My thanks to Winnie Liem and the PMI-SOC Government Community for introducing me to Steve.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Impact of Diversity Many of the new types of projects have put significant pressure upon companies to find new ways to meet the needs of employers, clients, and government agencies. Does the culture understand that some projects will fail because of the risks incurred and that workers should not be blamed for the failure? Pendry et al.,

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Tony Adams

APRIL 20, 2019

Shenhar and Dvir (2007) pose an interesting argument about innovation in a project management context. Breakthrough projects need a different approach – based on quick thinking, flexible funding and governance, different expectations around business benefits. Governance, funding, risks, scope, timing, benefits, stakeholders.

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Tony Adams

APRIL 20, 2019

Shenhar and Dvir (2007) pose an interesting argument about innovation in a project management context. Breakthrough projects need a different approach – based on quick thinking, flexible funding and governance, different expectations around business benefits. Governance, funding, risks, scope, timing, benefits, stakeholders.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Coping with the Cone of Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of the SAIV Process Model,” Da Yang, Barry Boehm, Qing Wang, and Mingshu Li, ICSP 2007, LNCS 4470, pp. 37–48, 2007. IT Risk Management. Domain-Based Effort Distribution Model for Software Cost Estimation,” Thomas Tan, University of Southern California, 2012.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. What factors lead to software project failure?” “SCRAM: A Method for Assessing Risk of Schedule Compliance,” Adrian Pitman, Angela Tuffley, and Betsy Clark, DMO General Manager Systems, Australian Government, ASWEC 2013. Dwivedi, Information Systems Frontiers, 17(1), pp. 29 May 2013.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. ITIL was partly in response to the UK government’s desire to standardise how we deliver IT services and became the de-facto approach to what became known as ITSM.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The technical measures are a set of attributes used to provide the supplier (developer) and the acquirer (customer) with insight into the progress of the definition and development of the technical solution, the ongoing assessment of the associated risks and issues, and the likelihood of meeting the critical objectives of the acquirer (customer).

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Misinterpretations of the “Cone of Uncertainty” in Florida during the 2004 Hurricane Season, Kenneth Broad, Anthony Leiserowitz, Jessica Weinkle, and Marissa Steketee, American Meteorological Society , May 2007. All risk comes from uncertainty.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives. ISO 31000:2009, ISO 17666:2016, and ISO 11231:2010 Risk is Uncertainty that Matters.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Portfolio Office Manager (PfM) is an employee who administers projects and programs in a portfolio in terms of risk, benefit, and performance management and reports on the results to the portfolio director and often workes together with a portfolio office analyst. PMO Job Titles.

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

This whole idea of inadequate baselining is some people might think it’s fraudulent, but in many ways, it’s self-fulfilling prophecy when it’s utilized so strongly as a governing agent in organizations. I need it, for example, to help me with my risk evaluations. The risk is a one, a one out of 25.

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Online PM Courses

JULY 23, 2018

It is no coincidence that the developers of the UK Government’s Project Management methodology, PRINCE (now, PRINCE2 ), chose the acronym they did, for their new methodology. PRINCE2 was updated in 2007 , by the way. I once told the story of how my book on Risk Management , ‘ Risk Happens!

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). Governance (#Governance). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

As far as this, the desktop client version of Microsoft Project, we are compatible with all versions, Project 98, Project 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2016, and 2019, so pretty much every version. The following week on July 29, at noon, Triskell Software will join us for an overview of their Enterprise Governance Software. Kyle: Great.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success. 325-330, 2013.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

I’m sitting there as this relatively young project manager, teaching all these folks at the bank about Agile, right, and risk management and things. So 2007, maybe, wow. ” This is legitimately getting somebody who is running hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue to take this risk, right?

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. Predicting Web Development Effort Using a Bayesian Network,” Emilia Mendes, EASE, 2007. “A 153, 2007 “Overspend? Bool, CrossLink: The Aerospace Corporation, Winter, 2000/2001, pp. 61, September 2004. Nobel Approaches & Practical Applications, AIT 2011.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

1, January 2007. Modern Tools to Support DoD Software Intensive System of Systems Cost Estimation: A DACS State-of-the-Art Report, August 2007. Organizational Structure Impacts Flight Software Cost Risk,” Jairus M. 37–48, 2007. Exploring the ‘Planning Fallacy’: Why People Underestimate Their Task Completion Times.”

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The IIL Blog

MAY 4, 2018

Because for the corporation, there is too much risk for corporate liability if they do not assign a certified professional and you will never know. Government contracts will require a certified project manager. Companies propose to government contracts because they are large and lucrative so you won’t get to lead those.

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