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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Managment Processes. Presentations and Briefings.

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Book of the Month

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Program Management and Systems Engineering are two critical processes for the success of any product or project development endeavor. from INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook: A Guide for System Lifecycle Processes and Activities , 4th Edition, Edited by D.D. This book is a must-read for anyone working on non-trivial projects.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Management Processes (#MP). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Management Processes. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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Software Estimating Resources

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So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.