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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Capabilities Based Planning. Capabilities Based Planning (V2). Deliverables Based Planning. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Project Performance Management.

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3 Questions That Must Be Asked at Every Project Management Meeting

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The answer is a Capabilities Based Plan stating what capabilities the stakeholders of the project need to accomplish their mission. In our space and defense domain, we have an increasing maturity of the deliverables captures in the Integrated Master Plan. The only answer to that is a measure of Physical Percent Complete (P%C).

2010 39
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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

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We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

2012 29
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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

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This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Abstracted from [3].

2010 28
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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

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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. The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

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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. The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

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Deconstructing The Cone of Uncertainty

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Traditional project management approaches, several of which are based on a strong belief in the cone of uncertainty, advocate stronger project control and greater planning. While controls and planning are useful, an overly strict focus can result in attempts to solve the wrong goal. This assumes of course the Plan is credible.

2007 42