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Cost Overrun in Aerospace and Defense: The Main Causes and How to Prevent Them

Epicflow Blog

Let’s dive into the causes for budget overrun in aerospace and defense projects, and consider the ways of preventing them. What causes budget overrun in aerospace and defense projects? . Unrealistic cost estimates. Both problems will extend a project’s timeline and cause corresponding budget overrun. .

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5 Signs of Bad Resource Allocation and How to Improve It with a Resource Management Solution

Epicflow Blog

Read further to estimate the level of your resource allocation and take measures to advance it. . Read more: Intaking More Projects in Aerospace and Defense: How Resource Management Solution Can Help. when task priorities are unclear or absent; in case of improper task estimations. . Sign 2: Disengaged and unmotivated people.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. Department of Energy.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

Herding Cats

The previous approaches to project performance management and production of the Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion make use of past performance. In our aerospace and defense business - not so much. This starts with a Model of what these attributes need to be for the project to be a success. .

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The Problems with Schedules

Herding Cats

Unrealistic Cost and Schedule estimates based on inadequate risk adjusted growth models. Before diving into the details of these, let me address another issue that has come up around project success and estimates. All that line says is this was the baseline estimate at Completion for the project work. Just the estimate.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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Best Production Scheduling Software for Manufacturing Projects in 2023

ProjectManager.com

It has been used by defense and aerospace industries and has capabilities that include activity management, document management, collaboration, issue tracking, resource management and budgeting. There’s a quoting module, but it uses estimates, and you can only reconcile accounts on a monthly basis.