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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Capabilities Based Planning. Capabilities Based Planning (V2). Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Deliverables Based Planning. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project 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. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes?

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

Modeling is at the heart of Program Planning and Controls. It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. 4] “On the Theory of Scales of Measurement,” S.S.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD).