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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Capabilities Based Planning. Capabilities Based Planning (V2). Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Deliverables Based Planning. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Performance Management.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

Modeling is at the heart of Program Planning and Controls. 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.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. References .

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD).

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

66% said they choose a project management software based on level of support available. [10]. 68% use the project plan documentation. 53% use project management software. Unrealistic schedule/reactive planning. Top 5 PPM Functions: Portfolio tracking & performance monitoring – 75%. Ease of use. [10].

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