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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline - without a good foundation, nothing can be built. Risk Management (#RM).

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Deconstructing the Hertz and Accenture Debacle

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A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. What are the Technical Performance Measure for each of those deliverables.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

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The will happen of course is dependent on externalities, some under our control some not. For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis. These performance measures, along with other factors impacting project performance can all be modeled [2].

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. Each of the categories operates in the presence of uncertainty and requires that estimates be made about the probability, conseqeunce of the resutling risk.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. And of course, those are biased, filtered are fed back into System One at a later date, creating more bias to the decision-making process in the future. Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

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And of course. No Credible Decision Can Be Made in the Presence of Uncertainty with making Estimates of the Impact of those Decisions. 2] "Evaluating Risk: A revisit of the Scales, Measurement Theory, and Statistical Analysis Controversy," J. 3] “Measurement Scales and Statistics: The Misconception Misconceived,” J.

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Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

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In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.