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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of 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. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2014—EMEA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. References . [1]

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis. For scenarios where the project under consideration does not yet exist, performance prediction using analytical modeling or simulation is necessary. 1-11, January 2014. Data Mining | DMIN'17.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Boehm, Barry W.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

Research shows that for projects, especially software projects Aleatory uncertainty is the predominant source of risk. All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Software Risk Management , Barry W.