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A Better Microsoft Project for Time Modeling: Deadlines and the (Most?) Critical Path

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For the next section, I will lean heavily on the proceedings from an international working group I led in 2011 that defined the next version of the 60-year-old Critical Path theory. If you want to read the White Paper we produced, please navigate to it here: Critical Path 2.0. White Paper. A ‘Most-Critical Path’.

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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. Project Breathalyzer. Planning and Scheduling. Balanced Scorecard.

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Book of the Month

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Kinscher, a white paper in the "Lean Product Development for Practitioners" series at MIT, 2011. 1] " Program Management for Large Scale Engineering Programs ," J. Rebentisch, and K.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). PMI EVM Community of Practice, EVM World , May 16-18 2011. A Cure for Unanticipated Cost and Schedule Growth , A White Paper.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“The Impact of Irrelevant and Misleading Information on Software Development Effort Estimates: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment,” Magne Jørgensen and Stein Grimstad, IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering , Volume 37, Issue 5, September ‒ October 2011. whitepapers/metrics–for–agile–projects.pdf. 5 Oct 1990, Page 21.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Nobel Approaches & Practical Applications, AIT 2011. A conversation around the analysis of the SiP effort estimation dataset,” Derek M. “Generalized Agile Estimation Method,” Shilpa Bhalerao and Maya Ingle, Proceeding of the International Conference on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology 2011. 3, July 2011.