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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management. Connecting the 5 Principles and 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management ® To Increase the Probability of Project Success. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Measures of Product Value is Exchange for Its Cost. Technical Performance Measures.

2003 54
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Acting Like an Adult in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. In our software development world, Values, Alternatives , and Facts are always part of the decision-making process mo matter if we're spending our customer's money or our own. Related articles.

2009 28
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Invoking "Laws" Without a Domain or Context

Herding Cats

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. What this says is again when the measure becomes the target, that target impacts the measure, changing the target. .

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

2010 28
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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail. Project Management Institute: Pulse of the Profession 2015: Capturing the Value of Project Management 2015. Implement/enhance PPM processes – 53%.

2015 60
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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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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.