The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

On that basis now is the time for you to ‘do the math’ and work your change portfolio investment out, an example was covered in ‘Challenge 1 – Invest in the right portfolio management’ – so you can reference that if you wish. But again, it is a rough estimate that is needed for this exercise.

2014 186

2014 Finance Leadership Estimate 186

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Flawless Execution.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

Risk 52

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

MPUG

JULY 23, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Making Light Work of Schedule Risk Analysis, presented by Barbecana.

Risk 52

Risk Software Review Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 52

PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral part of the Change Management and Risk Management process. It can also indicate potential risks to existing projects. Introduction.

2016 52

2016 2014 PMO Software Review 52

Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Regardless of your skills, background, and experience, you probably have asked yourself a question at least once: what kind of knowledge do I need to be a competitive expert in project management? And in this publication, we discuss the role of industry, product, and technical knowledge in the work of a project manager. .

Technical Review 102

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 2027 Risk Management 102

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

The recent UK Government’s enquiry into the management of major projects was cut short by world events, but the interim report and oral evidence make for interesting reading. [1] Schedule and Cost Control Starts with Good Estimates. Strategy Must Be Aligned with Work Through Portfolio Management.

Controlling 59

Controlling Estimate 2014 Underperforming Technical Team 59

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. First, let's establish a principle.

2003 46

2003 2014 2015 2011 46

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Ron Rosenhead

MARCH 15, 2016

The broader economy will also suffer…. · TfL relied on Bombardier to provide an end-to-end solution. . · Neither TfL nor Bombardier’s management teams were up to the task of managing the programme. · On this programme, a culture seems to have grown whereby TfL’s management was only interested in presenting good news.

Transportation 170

Transportation Planning 2014 2018 170

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2016

The dashboards give you a snapshot of the project in real time and are ideal for showing a summary of progress, risks and effort on one page – good for project sponsors and other stakeholders who aren’t that good at reading status reports. But overall, this is a good solid tool which does everything most project managers will need.

Software Review 150

Software Review 2016 Software 2013 150

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2016

Name: BusiBI Project Manager 2016. A Tool For Managing Multiple Projects. The first thing I noted when I set up BusiBI is that if you only manage one project then many of the features aren’t that helpful. Managing Tasks. There’s a risk that your team’s projects will sit at 80% complete for quite some time….

Software Review 164

Software Review 2016 Software 2014 164

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The number one thing every project manager needs to level up their skills is experience. A good project management book. While there are tons of fantastic resources online for learning how to be a better project manager (such as this blog!) Jump to a section: The best books for mastering the fundamentals of project management.

2020 148

2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. Benefits of Project Management. —1A. Project Management Methodologies. —1B. Project Management Best Practices. —1C.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Continuous Integration: Verification and Validation in an Agile Environment FAA Verification and Validation Summit 2014," Nick Bartlow, Ph.D. A Closer Look at 804, A Summary of Considerations for DOD Program Managers, CMU/SEI-2011-SR-015. Either a personal life or the life of 100's of people, or the life of a nation.

Process 39

Process Agile 2011 Aerospace 39

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner.

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. AHP can be used as a Value Management System to organize the criteria and assess trades off costs and benefits in considering total value. References . [1] References . [1]

Technical Review 47

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. This letter states.

2007 34

2007 2012 2009 2010 34

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. And then some more resources for managing in the presence of complexity . maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Complexity Primer.

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering provides an approach to making the decision about what's in the ConOps and its format based on some Systems Engineering analysis of criteria: Program risks - reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create these risks. IT Risk Management. Related articles.

2014 38

2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. If we take Tim Lister's advice about managing risk while spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty, where is the adult supervision here? . .

Estimate 35

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 35

Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Bimodal IT is a concept that was first introduced by leading global IT research firm Gartner in 2014. It is the practice of managing two distinct work modes concurrently – one mode focused on predictability and the other on exploration. Mode 2 is often conducted using the Agile project management framework.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Infrastructure Innovation Software Review 36

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp. IN this case Mean Time To Failure.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This ignores the principles of predictive analytics, and the direct management actions taken to produce outcomes from those analytical models found everywhere from project management to grocery store management and the model-based systems engineering. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

You’ve arrived at the fifth and final part in our agency project management series, where the time has come to evaluate the best project management tools for agencies, to help you find the right fit for your business. Far too many agencies are still using spreadsheets to manage high-stakes projects. Here’s what to look for: 1.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Software 2021 52

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JULY 18, 2019

Mr Nieto-Rodriguez has been recognised as the world’s leading champion of project management and founder of a global movement that has transformed the tactical topic of project management into one of the central issues in the CEO’s 2020 agenda. My Project Life. But What is a Project? In ‘But What is a Project?’

Governance 52

Governance Government 2017 2014 52

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days.

Technical Review 43

Technical Review 2010 Estimate Software Review 43

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2017

The other statistical issue is the chart showing #Noestimates versus other types of estimates. But the sample space of the total population of projects with #Noestmates as their estimating technique is only 3% of the total population. Maybe 11 to 12 for No Estimates and maybe some less than 15 for Light Weight Scrum, say 13. .

2006 37

2006 Estimate 2012 2014 37

Workzone

JANUARY 29, 2019

As a consequence, the product manager was unable to finalize an integrated design and still couldn’t give the customer a firm quote or delivery schedule 18 months later. As project managers, we have the ability to encourage collaboration between departments from the ground level by structuring our team’s interactions with other departments.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Manufacturing 52

LiquidPlanner

JUNE 22, 2022

How well do the people on your project team manage their time? The trick is to put effective time management systems in place to trick ourselves – to trick our brains – into staying on task when we need them to. By contrast, our relationship with time management is not necessarily unique and can be commonly held.

2022 147

2022 2011 2014 Engineering 147

Sudipta Lahiri

MARCH 16, 2014

The Pune Chapter Meet of the Limited WIP Society was held on Mar 8, 2014. Estimate upfront (high level) and understand the feasibility of delivering. Avoid detailed estimation, planning to man hour level and then getting into variance tracking. It was based on estimates and we all understand that estimates are dead on arrival!So,

Lean 20

Lean Development Team Review Budget Software Review 20

MPUG

JANUARY 9, 2020

Tim is an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator, supporting the project management community for over 25 years. As the president and founder of Advisicon, Tim has written over 38 books on project management methodologies and technologies. Where we talk about the three tiers of project program and portfolio management.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Engineering Software Review Development Team Review 52