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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Professor Flyvbjerg’s evidence showed that out of 12,000 major projects studied globally, fewer than half were on budget, fewer than 8% also on schedule, and only 0.5% As expected, it has a 100% record in delivery on schedule, but no Olympic Games has ever met the original budget (mean cost over-run 172%).

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. 18% — Delivered within budget. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Does that make sense to anyone who has worked in software development? Save Millions of Dollars?