Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 31, 2020

I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. You’ve just got one day for budget approval,” said Claire from Finance. In turn, you may put more and more pressure on your team to speed up – risking cutting corners and delivering a low quality product that is not fit for purpose. The One-Man Plan: A Story.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

The five phases of a project constitute the project management life cycle , which coincidentally is the title of a book by ProjectManager.com CEO Jason Westland. The project plan will include what resources are needed, financing and materials. Cost: Estimate the costs involved across the project and formulate a budget.

Process 402

Process Monitoring Executing Closing 402

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. In all cases, we start our work with.

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The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

But again, it is a rough estimate that is needed for this exercise. And finally, estimates of disruption ratio percentage (use the 20% provided if you don’t have a true idea of your own organisations percentage) and failure factor ratio percentage but only for the growth projects.

2014 186

2014 Finance Leadership Estimate 186

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. To be informed how to estimate in this broad range of domains, problems, and impacts - education, exp[erience, and skill are needed.

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Estimate Software Engineering Engineering Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2017

A Scrum of people works very well when doing Scrum , but operations, finance, and accounting are not the same as writing software for money. A Scrum of cost accountants, planner, finance, and operations people is called Chaos. It's a Value at Risk thing in my opinion. . IT Risk Management. This is how business works.

Finance 32

Finance Software Manufacturing Estimate 32

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. Tryin to measure every consequence from the choices between alternatives.

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2009 Artificial Inteligence 2013 2005 34

nTask

JANUARY 28, 2022

Be it meeting with the clients and discussing their needs, planning, and construction, managing the finances, or keeping an eye on legal matters, real estate development makes sure your hands are full all day, every day. Risk management. offers Priority Circle, a dedicated team to help you with your finance and accounting needs.

2022 78

2022 Software Review Software Construction 78

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Software Governance 28

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 6, 2016

I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. You’ve just got one day for budget approval,” said Claire from Finance. In turn, you may put more and more pressure on your team to speed up – risking cutting corners and delivering a low quality product that is not fit for purpose. The One-Man Plan: A Story.

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Estimate Finance Planning Consulting 150

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. requires making estimates) ? Risk Management Papers. “A

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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Software Review 2004 2012 PMI 121

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There are mysteries to managing in the presence of uncertainty for those who understand the principles of Risk Management of cost, schedule, and technical performance and know how to apply them using Managerial Finance, Microeconomics of Software Development, and Probabilities Decision making.

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Finance Estimate Engineering Risk Management 34

Sarah M. Hoban

JULY 18, 2023

Zoho offers 50+ software applications ranging from customer support to finance to sales to HR, with the goal for a business to run itself entirely using Zoho. Within each project, the project manager can input the project budget based on estimated staff or project hours. Team Collaboration.

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Software Review Finance Budget Software 52

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.”

2002 34

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 34

Herding Cats

JUNE 25, 2016

There's another rash of Twitter posters supporting the conjecture that decisions can be made about how to spend other people's money without estimating the impact and outcome of that decision. Managerial Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty Ari Riabacke. Managerial Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty Ari Riabacke.

2008 44

2008 Finance Estimate Software Developers 44

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.”

2002 28

2002 2008 Technical Review Software Review 28

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

All the things you need to know and do for successful risk management, for example, are bundled under the Risk Management Knowledge Area. In other words, you can't 'do' schedule management and ignore what the impacts of that might be on people, risk , communications, cost and the rest.

PMI 201

PMI Risk Management Risk Technical Review 201

Leading Answers

MAY 1, 2020

Either way, sometimes we do not get to do everything by the book and we have to work with what we are given. Does it include finance, HR and sales? Work with your team and product owner on getting your risk register responses correctly prioritized in the backlog. However, these initiatives often fail.

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Agile Finance Executing 2020 88

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. References . [1]

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Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

book to explain the differences between simple, complicated, ordered, complex, and chaotic. The book, while providing advice to managers on how to manage, mixes pseudo-scientific references and concepts – like the double pendulum – in support of essentially sound staffing and personnel management. IT Risk Management.

2009 39

2009 Estimate Energy Finance 39

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

This is called Risk Management and the processes of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. I recommend another book as guidance in making those decisions, Perspectives on Thinking, Judging, and Decision Making , Wibecke Brun Gideon Keren, Geir Kirkeb?

2001 32

2001 Finance Estimate Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Every once in awhile a reasonably intelligent No Estimates advocate shows up in a Twitter discussion. They often say you should be open-minded and try the concepts of No Estimates first. . This is the traditional No Estimates argument - you're being a troll because you're asking me pointed questions.

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Estimate Software Review Finance Closing 48

Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

While some people find the “let’s try something” approach counter-intuitive to rigorous upfront planning and design, most understand the risk reduction and true requirements validation benefits. Finance departments are typically set up to evaluate and approve requests for expenditures based on one- or multi-year ROI projections.

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Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 116

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For example, project management doesn’t have a specific method that we all use for document filing, different to, say, the way marketing or finance do document filing. A complete book in itself! You can do root cause analysis as part of risk management as well. Estimating methods. Here are four estimating methods.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Software Review Risk Management 433

Wrike

JULY 20, 2023

Other benefits of real estate vendor spreadsheets include: Improved efficiency: Having all vendor information in one place allows real estate agents and property owners to quickly and easily identify which vendor to contact for specific services, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.

Software Review 36

Software Review Technical Review Finance Artificial Inteligence 36

Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education. He’s the lead author of the book Sustainable Project Management, and he is a well-traveled man. now I’ve got to do a risk analysis.

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Sustainability Underperforming Technical Team Construction Certification 98

Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Look out for features like: Budgeting → Stay on top of your money with Productive Workload management → Cover it all with Screendragon Reporting → Dig into profitability with Accelo Client management → Collaborate with clients in Hola Finance management → Try Scoro’s comprehensive platform Get to know Scoro and Productive better 4.

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CTO Hire Influencer ChatGPT Finance 52

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A good book on Boyd is Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Making decisions in the presence of this emerging uncertainty requires making estimates of the impacts or outcomes of any decision. How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem. How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem.

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Closing Controlling SCRUM Estimate 28

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 28

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Beyond Book-learning. Risk management. Time, budget, and cost estimation. finance, marketing). Financial Reports. Tailoring traditional (predictive) and agile tools and methods. Planning and prioritizing. Managing project components like: Schedule. Lifecycle management (project, program, portfolio, product).

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PMI Technical Review Certification Leadership 74

Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

While some people find the “let’s try something” approach counter-intuitive to rigorous upfront planning and design, most understand the risk reduction and true requirements validation benefits. Finance departments are typically set up to evaluate and approve requests for expenditures based on one- or multi-year ROI projections.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 60

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

The project manager estimates the resource requirement and creates open positions that get fulfilled by the resource manager. The Project Management Book of Knowledge ( PMBOK® Guide ) – Sixth Edition has a comprehensive articulation of Project Resource Management and is perhaps most widely used by professionals worldwide.

Construction 347

Construction Estimate Technical Review Software Review 347

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2019

All the things you need to know and do for successful risk management, for example, are bundled under the Risk Management Knowledge Area. In other words, you can’t “do” schedule management and ignore what the impacts of that might be on people, risk, communications, cost and the rest. 10 Knowledge Areas of Project Management.

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PMI Risk Management Risk Estimate 379

Paymo App

JULY 27, 2018

Storing data online might seem to bring an additional risk to your business. However, with cloud becoming more and more secure these days, the benefits delivered by online storage significantly outweigh the fraud risks. Now that you’ve managed to effectively track your time, it’s time to take care of the finance-related issues.

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Process Risk Management Executing Finance 58