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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning. Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Presentations and Briefings.

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3 Questions That Must Be Asked at Every Project Management Meeting

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The only answer to that is a measure of Physical Percent Complete (P%C). P%C starts with defining the Measures of Performance and Technical Performance Measures for each deliverable as a function of time. These measures are supported by Quantifiable Backup Data. What is your actual condition? .

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Quote of the Day

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Here's a typical strategic planning process from "Strategic Planning with Critical Success Factors and Future Scenarios: An Integrated Strategic Planning Framework," Techncial Report, CMU/SEI-2010-TR-037. Performance Measures. Performance measures describe performance targets relevant to each objective.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

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Specific actions to reduce the Episuncertaintiesnaties and Margin to handle the Aleatory uncertainies are part of any good project management process. . Coping with the Cone of Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of the SAIV Process Model,” Da Yang, Barry Boehm, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, and Mingshu Li, ICSP 2007 , LNCS 4470, pp. 37–48, 2007.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

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The uncertainty is always there, it doesn't go away with specific actions in specific domains, or with the use of any tools, processes, or practices. This includes the Measures of Effectiveness (MoE), Measures of Performance (MoP), Key Performance Parameters (KPP), and Technical Performance Measures (TPM) of the deliverables.

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Deconstructing The Cone of Uncertainty

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Don't toss out the notion that reducing risk and uncertanty and all other performance measures doesn't follow the plan. . Thesis, George Mason University, 2010. "An Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012. Wallshein, Ph.D. 37–48, 2007. .

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

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This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Both analytical and laboratory studies are required at this level to see if a technology is viable and ready to proceed further through the development process. The core issue is Ordinal measures are subjective and provide little predictive value. The Wrap Up . References . [1]