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Wilo's Law and Mature Communications Processes

Herding Cats

To make some conjecture that some process will fix the problem - Estimates are the smell of dysfunction and NOT Estimating will fix that dysfunction - is naive at best and willfully ignorant of Root Cause Analysis at worse. Avoid Verbal Orders is a critical process in any critical situation. Measures of Performance.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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. Managment Processes. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning.

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Crafting an Effective Operational Excellence Strategy for Business Growth

Wrike

By implementing an effective operational excellence strategy, companies can streamline their processes, optimize performance, and achieve sustainable growth. At its core, operational excellence is about continuously improving processes, eliminating non-value-added activities, and delivering consistent value to customers.

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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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Physical Percent Complete: Knowing When You Are Done

Herding Cats

In the same way, when we build a unified set of principles, practices, and processes, and the information they depend on for successful program management by connecting unrelated pieces and parts a confusing and disjointed view of the program is the result. This is like building a tree by gathering sticks and rubber banding them together.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? 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]. Manufacturing. Crystal – 3%.

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Fallacy of the Week

Herding Cats

Have sufficient Technical Performance Measures margin to cover the required performance measure of the Capabilities. Related articles. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. IT Risk Management.