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Helping functional managers through an agile transformation

Kiron Bondale

What are they measured on and what are they measuring? As Tony Robbins would say, “ Where focus goes, energy flows “ If we haven’t updated performance measures for functional managers and their staff, it will be much harder to encourage them to change.

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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? This project office is important for organizations managing multiple projects simultaneously as it helps to ensure their completion on time, within budget, and within the scope required.

PMO 52
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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

Department of Energy. Who's Budget is it Anyway? Parametric Cost Estimating Handbook. NASA Cost Estimating Handbook. USAF Cost Risk Uncertainty Handbook. OMB A-11 Part 7. Defense Acquisition Universty Cost Estimating. Related articles. Three Increasingly Mature Views of Estimate Making in IT Projects.

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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.

2005 37
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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 31
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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.