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. Project Performance Management. Technical Performance Measures.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

But in a multi-project environment, when more than two projects run in parallel, being focused on a project performance only can be harmful for your organization. Examining Project Progress and Performance: Essence and Key Techniques. Performance Reporting in the Project Management. Read further to understand why. References.

Performance Measurement 52

Performance Measurement Software Review 2022 Budget 52

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In this article, we are going to explore Earned Value Management (EVM), a widely used traditional management technique, but we are going to look at it within the context of an Agile domain. In EVM terminology, baseline is further defined as the performance measurement baseline (PMB). Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).

Underperforming Technical Team 59

Underperforming Technical Team Agile Performance Measurement PMI 59

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Read a book on good writing. The first book is Beyond Bullet Points , Clif Atkinson. Here's a summary of that book. The next book is Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation and the 3rd book is Do I Make Myself Clear: Why Writing Matters , Harold Evans. Measures of Performance.

Process 56

Process Estimate Engineering Performance Measurement 56

Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

These charts are an extract from the book Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success and the abstracted training materials Handbook. Related articles. To support these Principles and Processes, a set of Practices are needed. Doing the Math. Hope is not a Strategy.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. Without units of measure of Value beyond time and money, there can be not basis of comparison between one value based choice and another. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

In this article, we will discuss the benefits of project management for HR professionals and why HR project management is vital for departmental success. It’s one of the 10 major project management process areas in the PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge). Establishing productivity and performance measures for the team.

Underperforming Technical Team 36

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Forms, guidelines, templates, and checklists from published textbooks and journal articles that can affect the execution of projects. Our company would not be happy giving this template to everyone who wants to purchase a book for $85. Therefore, it will be necessary to benchmark the metrics use as part of performance measurement.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

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.

Performance Measurement 52

Performance Measurement Technical Review Software Review Budget 52

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Related articles. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. With all this in place - to whatever scale is appropriate for the problem at hand, we need the final pieces. There, now we've got Principles, Processes, and Practices all connected. We've Been Doing This for 20 Years. Applying the Right Ideas to the Wrong Problem.

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

This process provides actionable information about the performance of the project using Quantifiable Backup Data (QBD) for the expected outcomes of the work, for the expected cost, at the expected time all adjusted for the reducible and irreducible uncertanties of the work. No measures of effectiveness. No measures of performance.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Join me as I explore the potential of a custom GPT based on my Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book in cutting through the maze of Scrum challenges.

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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 174

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Here's an article, recently referenced by a #NoEstimates twitter post. The headline is deceiving, the article DOES NOT suggest we don't need deadline, but that deadlines without credible assessment of their credibility are the source of many problems on large program. Related articles. The Core Problem with Project Success.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2017

Principles and Practices of Performance-Based Project Management® from Glen Alleman. Related articles. When hearing about some new, supposed innovative way for delivering value in exchange for money, ask does that idea fit into any known set of Principles and Practices of project success ? Capabilities Based Planning.

Information Technology 34

Information Technology Estimate Engineering Innovation 34

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2018

This article, How to Delegate Tasks With More Confidence and Less Stress , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. This is a guest article from Simon Harris from Logical Model. Read this article on delegating tasks first. The above is nice for a text book. Simon Harris.

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Prince2 Technical Review Closing Defining 262

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Corrective Action: Yes, those paying for your work have a fiduciary need to know how much it will cost in the end and along the way, when the Value will be arriving, and even to know that the Value producing Features in the Product Raodamp will be arriving in the order they need to start booking that Value. . Related articles.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

MPUG

JUNE 27, 2022

This article is the fifth in my series, “A Better Microsoft Project,” You can find the earlier articles here: Introduction , Time Modeling , D * U – W fields , and Workload Leveling. Examples of re-writing history would be: In USA, if slavery was left out of US history books used in schools. Thanks for reading!

Governance 52

Governance Government Estimate Performance Measurement 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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. It covered identifying requirements, interconnecting tasks, resources, planned values, actual values, baselines, performance measures, forecast techniques and timesheets.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

In our domain this is the Performance Measurement Baseline, which is a time-phased budget plan for accomplishing work against which contract performance is measured. Related articles. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. probably not. Especially if that time and money is not yours.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Jeff: If we’re talking in terms of emotional intelligence, I think I was discussing the different styles within that authored book. But a lot of that, a lot of the graphic design work in a, let’s say a presentation or a manual or any book is something that may be extremely time consuming. They did an excellent job.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59