Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2018

I'm finishing up the charts for a one day workshop at the Project and Program Management Symposium as well as one of the keynote talks and a streaming presentation. The basis of risk management in our community starts with NASA's principles. Risk-Informed Decision Making, NASA/SP-2010-576. No Uncertainty.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. It has been linked to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010).

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2018

I'm finishing up the charts for a one day workshop at the Project and Program Management Symposium as well as one of the keynote talks and a streaming presentation. The basis of risk management in our community starts with NASA's principles. All risk comes from uncertainty. Risk Management Handbook, NASA/SP-2011-3422.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Eugene Bounds and Steve Ackert Recently, the buzzword artificial intelligence (AI) has been on everyone’s minds, not just in the tech world but across many industries, including project management. Over twenty AI-enhanced tools today focus on project management capabilities and features (e.g., While some tools (e.g.,

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 25, 2017

After enjoying a glass of their 2010 Reserve Meritage I came to the conclusion that wine tasting and agile have more in common than you might think. Without having developed the discipline to pace themselves they run the risk of getting tipsy too quickly and might get turned off by the experience. It helps to have a guide.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 28, 2019

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Don’t be the project manager that lets a project go on and on by accepting every scope change and picking up all the operational work as well as the requests for new functionality, additions or improvements.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Some of the disadvantages include the risk to security and the potential of unauthorized access to data. The service simplifies the process to make case preparation often take half the time it would on paper. By 2010, they needed to find a solution that worked and saved them costs, so they could remain profitable.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 3, 2016

You are assigned to manage a project and before you or your team have had an opportunity to start to chip away at the looming mountain of uncertainty, you get put on the spot to provide a cost or schedule estimate by your project sponsor or some other stakeholder. It’s unfortunately an all too familiar scenario. No be there.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Project managers, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the unpredictable waves of the project environment? The terrain of project management is fraught with hidden challenges and opportunities lying in wait for the unwary. Be alert to risks so you will have ample room to take action. Because it is.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Advantages and disadvantages of creating Gantt charts in Excel Step-by-step process to create a Gantt chart using Excel Free Excel Gantt chart templates A simpler and free alternative to making Excel Gantt charts. Project milestones make the project more manageable and risk-free. Let’s get started. What is a Gantt Chart?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

Risk is everywhere on projects. This risk comes from two types of uncertainty. Aleatory uncertainty, which is the naturally occurring yields variances in the underlying processes. Epistemic uncertainty comes from probabilistic processes that can be addressed with handling responses. And as Tim Lister reminds us .

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2022

In 2010 I started my first assignment as a Scrum Master. In this blog post, I give an overview of the Scrum Master role, describe how the role embodies 6 stances, and explain why I don’t consider servant leader and manager valid stances anymore. How is Scrum a framework to manage risk and deliver value sooner?

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

The collaboration between product and project management can seem complex, but finding this balance unlocks your potential to manage essential aspects of the organization. Product Management Considerations: Aligning Projects with Market Demands Aligning projects with customer requirements and market demands is expected.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2020

The idea of the organization as a machine has become so ingrained and pervasive in management practices and theories in the past fifty years, that it is hard to even be aware of it. The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. and attributes much of it to scientific management.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project.

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Leading Answers

MAY 11, 2020

What can we look forward to seeing in the world of online learning for project managers? The period from 2005 to 2010 brought YouTube, Twitter and iPhones. LMS (learning management systems) evolved to become LXP (learning experience platforms). What are the emerging trends and good practices?

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Here's the three questions, and the framework for the answers in the project management domain. Of course, each of these questions and answers must be risk-adjusted since. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister. Risk-Informed Decision Making , NASA/SP-2010-576.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

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.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes , Richard Stutzke, Addison-Wesley, 2005. IT Risk Management. Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The beginning of all business critical software development projects is the point in time when performing organizations are least certain about the project, yet it is also the time when top management expects to be delivered project estimates that are very precise. IT Risk Management. 37–48, 2007. Related articles.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

For the Agile community practitioners, managing change and uncertainty to deliver on strategic goals is nothing new. The former grows by adding scale and complexity, which must be managed. The latter grows by transforming itself to function more efficiently in its changing environment.

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The Squad Report

JULY 18, 2018

As project managers, we’ve all had a taste of at least one project gone awry. A KPMG survey of 100 businesses reported 70% of organizations faced at least one project failure in the year 2010 alone. An effective project manager is one who will always look for ways to streamline the project, team collaboration, and its outcomes.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. That is an Immutable Principle of good project management. Remember Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

A lot of managers and project ideation teams face the same challenge. You need a workflow like Kanban project management that helps you understand how your project will proceed, the resources needed, their need of allocation and shifting and the amount of time required to complete each milestone. . Understand that you’re not alone.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. 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. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Abstracted from [3].

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2021

Managing a project is a team effort. Depending on the project management tools that you use, you could end up with files of various types—and this can cause compatibility issues. Depending on the project management tools that you use, you could end up with files of various types—and this can cause compatibility issues.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2018

But what habits apply specifically to successful project managers? So, habits amplify how effective you can be and, therefore, how successful your project management practices are. Without these, I think you’ll fail to make any sort of worthwhile career out of project management – or anything much else.

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Governance Government Technical Review 2010 416

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In that simple statement is the key to Principle Based Management of Other People’s money. †. The second school of thought involves “principle-based leadership/management”—that is, trusting people in leadership positions to make good decisions even without a rule to hide behind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

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. In that case, the competitor will win nearly every time, and the prize for “good” project management might be losing market share. If not, that's another issue.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

When project managers refer to a product they’re working on as their ‘baby’, they’re not exactly wrong. Although the growth phase represents progress, it still has risks for the newly launched product. Today, word processing software has rendered these devices obsolete. Be a Better Manager. Stage Three: Maturity.

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