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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

It is a focal point for project oversight, resource management, and decision support, providing the organizational structure used to manage people, processes, and tools in project execution. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Envision yourself as knowledgeable and with the necessary tools and insights to drive projects successfully and efficiently ; you will gain a profound understanding of the multifaceted nature of the value delivery system and master critical project management principles. Will they adapt to the technological changes or become obsolete?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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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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)? There are lots of SysML Tools. Key System Attributes. Was there a system architecture.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management. Risk can be the potential consequence of a specific outcome that affects the system’s ability to meet cost, schedule, and/or technical objectives. Epistemic uncertainty ?

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow Blog

Practically it means that when a planned task is delayed due to uncertainty, the delay is not compensated by other tasks finishing early. This chapter digs deeper into a powerful tool for mitigating their impact: buffers. This visual tool, when intersected with the buffer consumption rate, offers a clear picture of project performance.

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Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

Herding Cats

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success. 285-311, 2017.