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Phrases Used for Technical Performance Measures

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Gary Bliss, Director Performance Assessment and Root Cause Analysis (PARCA), US Department of Defense. No matter the domain, the engineering development process, these concepts are applicable. Budget control is mandatory for any credible management of other peoples money. Name – states the Technical Performance Measures.

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Connecting "What" with "How" - and the Failure to Understand the Principles of Systems Engineering and Systems Management

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This view of the system of producing value in exchange for money ignores the principles of systems engineering. . Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

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Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget. process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.)

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Fallacy of the Day

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Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. Project controls are concerned with the metrics of the project – quantities, time, cost, and other resources and their measurable beneficial outcomes for the project.

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Modeling the Future is the Basis of Project Success

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This ignores the principles of predictive analytics, and the direct management actions taken to produce outcomes from those analytical models found everywhere from project management to grocery store management and the model-based systems engineering. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes.

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

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The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. If the parameter of interest is not being reduced as needed, go find out why and fix it, or you'll be late, over budget, and the technical outcome unacceptable. The Cone of Uncertainty is the framework for improving the needed performance of the project.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.