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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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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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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? Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

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When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time.

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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? Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. 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." Macroeconomics is not. .

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).