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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls - project management is a closed loop control system. Project Performance Management. Management Processes (#MP).

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project. Budget at Completion (BAC): BAC is the sum total of all budgets established for the work to be performed. Budget Cost: The cost of the project estimated at the start of the project. Note that the budget cost is not the same as the budget.

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Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Herding Cats

Project Managers constantly seek ways to eliminate or control risk, variance, and uncertainty. Attempting to control these variances outside their natural boundaries is a waste (Muda). Provide oversight, advice, guidance and control systems associated with Programmatic Risk management. Hope is Not a Strategy.

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Is Macroeconomics and Social Science the Same as Software Development?

Herding Cats

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. It includes the budgets assigned to scheduled control accounts and the applicable indirect budgets. Of course not.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

We invite you to join in today with questions and comments by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. The planning, the executing, the monitoring, controlling, and hopefully you’re getting it right and refining and improving until bam, closing. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase?

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