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Systems Engineering and Software Intensive System of Systems

Herding Cats

This is a good start, but it needs to produce actionable outcomes , not just principles, but practices and processes. Finance, social, political. Much of Ackoff's principles are the basis of practices and processes that assure this happens. . Technical Performance Measures. Agile as a Systems Engineering Paradigm.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

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This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. The risks related to performance, cost, and time must also be considered. The Wrap Up . References .

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened. Similarly, product lifecycle management (PLM) integrates people, data, processes and business systems. The audit, surveillance, performance reporting, measurement are at the core of all business processes.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.

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Organizational Culture and Its Impact on Team Performance

ActiveCollab

Insider clubs create group think , while analysis paralysis , can prolong the decision-making process: not only will it take a lot of time to evaluate alternatives, but there is also a period needed for reaching consensus among some conversative groups. Competitive company culture. Creative culture.

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Project Versus Product in Agile Development

Herding Cats

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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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Agile Project Management. Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 69% to 45% ).

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