Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

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. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Landmark’s measure of success over these three years had much more to do with customer satisfaction and market share than with meeting knowingly aggressive targets. It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects. Related articles.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

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. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012. .

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Number of companies with a PMO has grown from 47% to 80% from 2000-2012. Implement/enhance reporting, analytics, & dashboard tools – 62%. Finance – 93%.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60