ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It collects and uses project information through one or more software applications. There are different types of PMIS software, but most share feature sets that include tools for scheduling, work authorization, information collection and distribution, etc. What Is PMIS? Therefore, a PMIS is so important.

Software Review 213

Software Review Project Life Cycle Closing Budget 213

MPUG

APRIL 4, 2022

I see many PMs use the MS Project software tool to work on a project over its life cycle, but most don’t use MS Project to close the project. Conduct a Variance Analysis. The results of the variance analysis are included in the Final Report of the project. Variance and Variance Analysis are two separate, but intertwined terms.

Closing 109

Closing Performance Measurement Project Life Cycle Executing 109

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

You can use various tools like Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Lucid , Google Sheets, or specialized software for creating strategy canvases. After-Sales Support: XYZ Electronics offers regular software updates and security patches, enhancing the longevity of their smartphones. Value: Moderate. Value: High. Value: High.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Retail 105

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When we hear of the difficulties of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty, especially about software features and capabilities, there are straightforward ways to solve this problem. Decision Analysis is a principle, technique, and application to address complex decisions in a structured manner. References . [1]

Technical Review 47

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. This is from one of our presentations from a International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association meeting on the same topic. I'd suggest the Principles for project success on non-trivial software efforts are universal.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. Risk is any positive or negative event that can affect project execution. Techniques/Analysis/Tools. PEST Analysis. Qualitative Risk Analysis. S-curve Analysis.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

nTask

APRIL 28, 2021

Due to the complexity of business operations, use process documentation software, such as a Business Process Management (BPM) platform. Add control points and measurements. This includes identifying process risks or sustainability measures to monitor the process. Process Improvement Tool #1: Gap analysis.

Sustainability 120

Sustainability Process Underperforming Technical Team Lean 120

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 28, 2016

At times I work for the Institute for Defense Analyses , who produces Root Cause Analyses for software-intensive system of systems, here's an example Expeditionary Combat Support System: Root Cause Analysis. Start with Root Cause Analysis and only then suggest the reason for the problem. IT Risk Management.

Estimate 28

Estimate Performance Measurement Information Technology Risk Management 28

Wrike

JULY 29, 2023

Situational analysis: This involves assessing the internal and external factors that may impact the business. By understanding the business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, businesses can make informed decisions and develop strategies that leverage their strengths and mitigate potential risks.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Planning Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 36

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures. The specifics of the Technical Performance Measures applied to inform Physical Percent Complete and the Cone of Uncertainty around the TPM are shown here.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Related articles.

Software Review 28

Software Review Technical Review Performance Measurement Estimate 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The book that contains that paper and provides the specific approach to modeling the future is Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building , Georg E. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes. Performance Analysis and Prediction . Box, Willaim G.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is done by active risk management, through probabalistic decision-making.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The technical measures are a set of attributes used to provide the supplier (developer) and the acquirer (customer) with insight into the progress of the definition and development of the technical solution, the ongoing assessment of the associated risks and issues, and the likelihood of meeting the critical objectives of the acquirer (customer).

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Then there is some analysis. Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management. 37–48, 2007.

2012 29

2012 2007 2010 2006 29

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

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. Abstracted from [3].

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

With execution underway, managing the risks of the project becomes our focus beyond the engineering work. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. With all this in place - to whatever scale is appropriate for the problem at hand, we need the final pieces.

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

The best starting point for determining the NEEDED precision and accuracy is to determine the Value at Risk. . 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. . Answer 2 weeks.

Estimate 46

Estimate Risk Management Risk SCRUM 46

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. No risk management plan with mitigations, the risks are still there, and we're not managing other people's money like adults. Since all risks come from uncertainty, we have to estimate those uncertainties, their impacts, their residual risks after mitigation.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Risk Engineering 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. This approach is guided by the processes for Root Cause Analysis on Software Intensive System of Systems project I've worked. Root Cause Analysis. Were there: Measures of Effectiveness.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Accept: A response to a project risk where the project manager accepts the risk and takes no action to evade it, i.e. 'accepting' the risk. This is usually in case of risks that are unlikely to occur or minor enough so as to not affect the project's outcome. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Wrike

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without the right software to organize all the project information, projects can go off track — so having a PMIS (or project management information system) comes in handy. A PMIS is a software program or application that organizes and controls the flow of project data and information. Project risk management.

Software Review 36

Software Review Estimate Budget Monitoring 36

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. It contains all the details about the tasks a project team has to perform. . Assumption Analysis . Activity Attributes . Bar Chart

Software Review 45

Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 45

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. It contains all the details about the tasks a project team has to perform. . Assumption Analysis . Activity Attributes . Bar Chart

Software Review 40

Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 40

Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC), Estimated Completion Date (ECD) are the life blood of our software intensive system of systems programs. The management of SISoS is really no different than the management of any other enterprise class software system. International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association.

Estimate 34

Estimate Logistics Performance Measurement Governance 34