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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course.

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Earned Value Management (EVM) in Agile Development

MPUG

A product manager, who works for a large aircraft manufacturing organization in the United States, follows a hybrid model of development and, with his team, releases a new version of aircraft handling software every couple of weeks. In EVM terminology, baseline is further defined as the performance measurement baseline (PMB).

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

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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An Introductory Guide to Project Management for HR

Wrike

For instance, attracting new talent, launching and executing training and development programs, completing annual performance and salary reviews are all projects that HR teams need to complete. Executing team bonding events . Training and development programs. Optimizing virtual onboarding for dispersed teams.

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Connecting "What" with "How" - and the Failure to Understand the Principles of Systems Engineering and Systems Management

Herding Cats

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. While traditionally applied to product development, systems engineering can also be applied to service and enterprise systems. The MOE's belong to the End User - this is the what part of the development project.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

The person performing the external benchmarking study must possess an excellent understanding of his/her organization’s current project management and business processes. This knowledge must include an understanding of the current strengths and especially weaknesses needing improvement. Efficiency increases by a certain percentage.

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations.