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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). Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline - without a good foundation, nothing can be built. Risk Management (#RM).

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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

Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Risk management is proactive, taking preventative actions rather than taking corrective actions. Risk management is an important skill that can be applied to all projects. Herding Cats: Deconstructing The Cone of Uncertainty. Herding Cats: Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty.

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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

What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase? When we look at the different sections here, what I like is that they talk about delivery cadence and they give a few examples. And so it was appropriate to say, okay, they budgeted 500 hours for me to get the list of modules accomplished. It makes sense.