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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning. Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Presentations and Briefings.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success. On Being a Leader.".

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

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I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

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PP&C lives in the domain of Project Management and Controls, which is a Technical Management Processes of ISO 15288. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis.

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Deconstructing the Hertz and Accenture Debacle

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This approach is guided by the processes for Root Cause Analysis on Software Intensive System of Systems project I've worked. Were they based on the established planning processes for complex Software Intensive System of Systems? Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance. Key System Attributes.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

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This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Both analytical and laboratory studies are required at this level to see if a technology is viable and ready to proceed further through the development process. The core issue is Ordinal measures are subjective and provide little predictive value. The Wrap Up . References . [1]

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.