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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

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Well, because according to PMI, the Project Management Institute, 45% of projects experience scope expansion, 32% failed on their budgeting, and 16% were deemed complete failures. Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. This was from last week. Is it Fletcher?

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Economics of Software Development

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Underestimating software engineering costs could result in management approving proposed systems that potentially exceed budget allocations, or underdeveloped functions with poor quality, or a failure to complete a project on time. Managing in the presence of uncertainty requires a Closed Loop Control process.

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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

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For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Showing up late and over budget does not produce the needed Value.

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Cone of Uncertainty

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Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. When you hear I have data that shows the uncertainty doesn't reduce , then that project is out of control and will be late, over budget, and likely not perform to the needed effectiveness and performance parameters. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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

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I came to my office today because I was having internet issues at home, and so I will ask for your indulgence because our office is actually quite close to a hospital. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. By education and training.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. Showing up late, over budget, and with missing Capabilities is not what the customer paid for. Then as we say in our domain.