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

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Kyle: And welcome to Part 2 of MPUG’s Project Performance Measurement course. 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. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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And of course, those are biased, filtered are fed back into System One at a later date, creating more bias to the decision-making process in the future. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What Resources will be needed to reach Done?

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Is Software Development Art or Engineering

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I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. An empirical proof of effectiveness is, of course, a test suite. But there are software systems where testing is necessary but not sufficient. .

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

And of course, those are biased, filtered are fed back into System One at a later date, creating more bias to the decision-making process in the future. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What Resources will be needed to reach Done?

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

MPUG

Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course. We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. By education and training. That is a huge amount.

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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. Economics of Software Development.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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This, of course, is a fallacy on all levels. 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. Of Course Not. . The human behaviors are used with anecdotes like.