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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

It provides support and requires compliance through audits, project reviews, and the enforcement of specific practices. Directive PMO Industry Application - Directive PMO is suitable for industries involved in large-scale construction and engineering or those undergoing significant transformations, such as manufacturing or energy sectors.

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

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It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures. The specifics of the Technical Performance Measures applied to inform Physical Percent Complete and the Cone of Uncertainty around the TPM are shown here.

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Deconstructing the Hertz and Accenture Debacle

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Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance. Key Performance Parameters. Not a technical architecture but a process and acquisition architecture defined in an Acquisition Project Execution Plan (PEP)? You can be late, over budget, and have technical problems, but it can't be a surprise.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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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." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21. Boehm, Barry W.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

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Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. For example, a project estimated at 100 work hours might include a 20-hour time buffer for contingencies like absences or technical issues. 5] Once in Red, Always in Red , Albert Ponsteen (2017). [6]

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. Yet, in many companies and organizations, software business relationships to software development and engineering remain vague. [6]. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] A final Thought . Flyvbjerg, H.