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. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In EVM terminology, baseline is further defined as the performance measurement baseline (PMB). Let’s first define PMB, because, as I’ve seen, the lack of clarity regarding EVM is typically due to lack of PMB understanding. Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). An Example – EVM In Agile. References. [1]

Underperforming Technical Team 59

Underperforming Technical Team Agile Performance Measurement PMI 59

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 15, 2018

The above is nice for a text book. The above defines the duties; below I’ll add each party’s rights and the ‘ how to ’ steps. Be Clear on Requirements and Confirm Performance Criteria. Requirements matched to agreed performance measurement criteria are a pair (or the same thing stated twice).

Prince2 267

Prince2 Technical Review Closing Defining 267

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. This physical percent complete is measured as compliance with the Technical Performance Measures of the outcomes of the work efforts, that consume the budget for that work. Technical Performance Measures.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their book “ Blue Ocean Strategy.” In summary, the Strategy Canvas is a valuable tool for strategic analysis and planning, especially in industries with clear competitive factors and well-defined customer segments. What is the Strategy Canvas Tool? The Strategy Canvas for the Strategic PM?

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Retail 105

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It covered identifying requirements, interconnecting tasks, resources, planned values, actual values, baselines, performance measures, forecast techniques and timesheets. The implementation strategy requires having a plan with the final objectives defined. Click To Tweet. Implementation Issues. Implementation Issues.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

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. They define compliance to performance requirements.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

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. Domain is King, No Domain Defined, No Way To Test Your Idea. With some details for each process area. Related articles. Doing the Math.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. Closed Loop Control, has a goal, an action, a measurement, and a corrective action. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

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. You can get this book on Amazon for $10.00, read it and confirm that the opening conjecture is a fallacy. Box, Willaim G. Hunter, and J.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Function Point

JULY 3, 2023

We help define internal processes and workflow, and in doing this we have come up with 6 personas that interact within the typical creative agency. They must prepare financial statements, examine and analyze an agency’s books, and ensure that financial reporting requirements and other accounting standards are met.

Performance Measurement 40

Performance Measurement Software Review Finance Leadership 40

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

Features like time tracking, reporting, and performance measurement are incredibly helpful if efficiency is your main concern – but they’re not available in all project schedulers, and are rarely available on any low-tier plans. Ganttic defines resources as “anyone and anything that needs to be planned for a project to succeed”.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2022 Software Technical Review 52

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Our company would not be happy giving this template to everyone who wants to purchase a book for $85. Most companies have core values which help define their firm’s identity and how decisions will be made. Therefore, it will be necessary to benchmark the metrics use as part of performance measurement.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

ProProfs Project Management

JUNE 11, 2019

Earned value management in project management can be defined as: A systematic project management process that helps managers to measure project performance. In most cases, the earned value management systems help project management software to keep a tab on misleading cost variance or booking lag as well. ?

Software Review 61

Software Review Software Budget Influencer 61

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

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Unrealistic performance expectations missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Defining the Measures of Performance, the resulting Measures of Effectiveness, and the Technical Performance Measures of the resulting project outcomes is a critical success factor.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Corrective Action/Preventative Action: Productivity in software development is simple to define and measure: One start is to use Earned Value Management, but we won't get there. The next is to define in the Product Roadmap - in units of money - the Value of the Feature to the product.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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. People have defined skills and capabilities. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. probably not. On projects yes. What is a Team?

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The term “Black Swan event” has been part of the risk management lexicon since its coinage in 2007 by Nassim Taleb in his eponymous book titled The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The author of quote read a Taleb book on Black Swans and assumes those Black Swans are in software development. taken from [3]).

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Now up to this point, session number one of our series, we were discussing a system for value delivery, which meant for the most part, PMI wanted to paint five primary contextual concepts defining the system for value delivery. They did an excellent job. I think they did an excellent job.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59