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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.

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

Herding Cats

The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures.

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What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Functions Associated with Projects A system for value delivery encompasses a range of knowledge areas associated with the project lifecycle, including initiating, planning, executing, and closing (PMBOK, 2017). Organizations can optimize project performance and outcomes by integrating these functions into a cohesive framework.

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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. This is the basis of Earned Value Management.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Andersson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , 54(1), June 2017. [3] In Kahnemann's Thinking Fast and Slow there are three biases. †. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] Kirchler, D.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

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. Solomon, Daniel Vallero, and Kathryn Benson, International Reliability and Maintenance Symposium , 2017. [3]

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Andersson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , 54(1), June 2017. [3] In Kahnemann's Thinking Fast and Slow there are three biases. †. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] Kirchler, D.