Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Product Development (#ProdDev).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Project Management Software & Tools. How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Project Failure.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes. Past performance data or the Model of the needed Future performance of the project?

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41