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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. Step 3: Be able to analyze the business and project management processes of other companies/organizations.

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9 Inspirational Teamwork Examples

ProjectManager.com

According to NASA, there were an estimated 400,000 people involved in making the moon landing possible. This included teams of scientists, engineers and technicians, many who had not worked in aerospace before. There was no central government and the risk of the new nation falling apart was even more of a concern than it is today!

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Increasing the Probability of Program Success

Herding Cats

We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. And to make those risk-informed decisions in the presence of reducible and irreducible uncertainty we need to ESTIMATE. Cost Impacts.

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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. OMB A-11 Part 7.

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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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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. Estimation of Long?Term Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999. Estimation of Long?Term Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?