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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. We do not have the luxury of throwing resource at projects and simply hoping that in the future people will look back and say, ‘what a great project that was’! Schedule and Cost Control Starts with Good Estimates.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Product Development (#ProdDev).

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Software Estimating Resources

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Benchmarking Effort Estimation Models Using Archetypal Analysis,” Nikolaos Mittas, Vagia Karpenisi, and Lefteris Angelis, ACM PROMIS ’14, September 17, 2014. A Project–Product Model-Based Approach to Planning Work Breakdown Structures of Complex System Projects,” A. Dori, IEEE Systems Journal, January 2014. “A

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Simplifying Procurement in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF) : In this cost reimbursement contract, the supplier earns an additional fee if they meet or exceed performance targets, promoting cost efficiency and aligning with project cost management goals. References Project Management Institute. Project Management (2 nd ed.).

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Mazzuchi, and Shahram Sarkani, Systems Engineering , Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 2014, Pages: 375–391. On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Complexity in Project Management,” Michael T.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T. 1, March 2014.