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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are there projects missing deadlines, going over budget, or failing to meet expectations within your organization? A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. You're not alone. What is a Project Management Office?

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. Department of Energy.

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Fallacy of the Day

Herding Cats

Measures of Performance - are performance measures that characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. Measures of Performance. The Technical Performance Measures. Open Loop Control System.

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Software Intensive System of Systems

Herding Cats

Often, these systems can readily exchange only information and knowledge with one another, and not substantial quantities of physical mass or energy. The system of systems performs functions and carries out purposes that do not reside in any component system. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

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Software Intensive System of Systems

Herding Cats

Often, these systems can readily exchange only information and knowledge with one another, and not substantial quantities of physical mass or energy. The system of systems performs functions and carries out purposes that do not reside in any component system. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

2001 28
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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

System One requires very little energy or attention. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes? Or - and this is a critical point - it thinks it knows.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

System One requires very little energy or attention. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes? Or - and this is a critical point - it thinks it knows.