The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Activity An activity is the actual, specific task that must be performed in a project, i.e., the tactical level of work. Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

When we think about the journey from traditional delivery approaches to agile, the focus is normally on delivery teams or on those areas of the organization which will need to transition from being project-focused to becoming product, capability or value-stream centric.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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. Who's Budget is it Anyway?

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Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We are solving complex problems, which require us to use an empirical process, lean UX practices, and a supporting technology platform that allows us to build, measure, learn and apply the learning in a repeatable fashion. If we do not fully build this feature, we may never get the budget again” is the tiresome excuse I always hear.

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Lean Performance Measurement Innovation Software 125

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It's been said by an agile voice that. The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. Progress and Value are measured with the same in Earned Value Management. To connect What with How we start with the Technical Performance Measures.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

Establishing the Foundation and the Pillars of Project Governance In project management, success isn't merely about meeting deadlines or staying within budget constraints; it's about delivering tangible value that aligns the project objectives with organizational goals.

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Governance Government Risk Management 2015 52

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Instilling project management practices, especially the Agile framework , contributes to the business agility capabilities of the organization. Organizational changes should empower business value creation through business agility. Customer value or the desired outcomes are established at the start of projects.

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Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

Wrike

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Improved schedule management planning helps with forecasting time-related costs, budget and resource allocation, and personnel availability. . Baselines enable you to assess the performance of your project over time. Identify performance measures. Certain project methodologies work best for specific projects.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Agile projects usually do not have set or fixed scope, making this method extremely adaptive to changes proposed by clients. . The amount of money allocated to a specific project is referred to as the project budget. Performance Measurement Baseline. Assumption. Optimistic Duration.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

LiquidPlanner

MAY 9, 2017

These measures will give you some interesting management information and might help you manage the team. But if your sponsor is unhappy in the end, she won’t feel any better by you telling her you were under budget by 1.3 You can deliver something on time, on budget, and to the specified scope, and they will still be unhappy.

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Performance Measurement Budget Closing Agile 107

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected. No not to exceed budgets. No Deadlines.

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MPUG

MAY 21, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 3: Using MS Project to Track and Report on Performance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. This one’s titled using MS Project to track and report on performance.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected. No not to exceed budgets. No Deadlines.

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2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. There's a webinar coming this week with the title Value First: How our Customers Deliver every Project On-Time, Under-Budget, and High-Quality. This process can be stationary (unchanging distribution) or non-stationary (a changing distribution function).

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Manufacturing Estimate Risk Management Budget 40

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

Establishing productivity and performance measures for the team. Tracking hiring costs against budgets and forecasts. Help you more successfully plan for quarterly and annual goals and activities using project planning methods and frameworks (such as Agile ). .

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. If the parameter of interest is not being reduced as needed, go find out why and fix it, or you'll be late, over budget, and the technical outcome unacceptable. The Cone of Uncertainty is the framework for improving the needed performance of the project.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

If I'm risking two weeks of work for the Scrum team of 5 people it's a much different need from the risk of a $10B manned spaceflight program being supported to congress for budget authorization. . To learn more about estimating on Agile programs read Chapter 5 of the bibliography below.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Here's two recent ones I've encountered with some Agile and #NoEstimates advocates. Without setting a target to measure against, we have: No baseline control. No measures of effectiveness. No measures of performance. No technical performance measures. No Key Performance Parameters.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Agile 2008 Conference. [18]

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). Agile 2008 Conference. [18]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Agile 2008 Conference. [18]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is usually a cost, a completion date, a performance measure used in a closed loop control system to keep the project GREEN while delivering the needed Capabilities to produce the Value for the customer at the needed time for the needed cost.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. Agile development works best when there is a trust but verify paradigm. Related articles.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Project Performance Management.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. The customer is accountable for knowing what Done Looks Like (in Unity of measure meaningful to their domain). Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

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Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. But if the development work is a Project is a fixed period of performance, for a fixed (with margin) budget, and a fixed set of Capabilities, then the question is can agile be used to develop the software?

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

is an approach to evaluating a gross value applying such criteria as budget, complexity, duration, and size based on a previous similar project estimation experience. . Budget at Completion (BAC) . is initial data for your project performance measurement necessary for the start. Budgeting . Actual Cost .

Software Review 45

Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 45

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

is an approach to evaluating a gross value applying such criteria as budget, complexity, duration, and size based on a previous similar project estimation experience. . Budget at Completion (BAC) . is initial data for your project performance measurement necessary for the start. Budgeting . Actual Cost .

Software Review 40

Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 40

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Agile Project Management. Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. 18% — Delivered within budget. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

You can be late, over budget, and have technical problems, but it can't be a surprise. Extensibility requires measures of effectiveness and measures of performance be defined BEFORE any work starts. If they're using Agile every 2 to 3 weeks. What are the Technical Performance Measure for each of those deliverables.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Agile Risk Management and DSDM Pocketbook , Alan Moran, IARM. Agile Risk Management and Scrum , Alan Moran, Institute for Agile Risk Management, 2014.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When buffers are made visible, trust is crucial; without it, their presence can reinforce negative stereotypes, painting them as budget inflators rather than strategic tools. It prepares teams for unforeseen challenges, enhancing the organization’s agility and responsiveness to change.

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2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

There are several partitions of this information that are common in building the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). The PMB is a time phased, budgeted description of the project. In traditional programs, this is an Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, with budgets laid into the Work Packages.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. You Can’t Understand Agile Without Understanding Hayek. It includes the budgets assigned to scheduled control accounts and the applicable indirect budgets. Let's look at one example.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

You’ll need to do some groundwork to figure out which one is best for your specific needs based on factors such as team size, budget, and the complexity of the projects you work on. As with all software, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Collaboration. One of the functions it does have that users love, is the automations.

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Software Review 2022 Software Technical Review 52

Wrike

JANUARY 20, 2022

Showing an overview of current performance. Measuring real-time performance accurately. IT teams have evolved from being a support function to enabling better business performance. The IT team’s KPIs, budgets, and project performance are a few elements that can be tracked using custom dashboards.

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