MPUG

JULY 10, 2023

You can get this number from your finance analyst, budget spreadsheet, or report. Budget at Completion (BAC) Budget at completion (BAC) is exactly what it sounds like: the budget forecast. If not, use the number that was given to you at the start of the project which is your budget allocation for the whole project.

Budget 40

Budget Controlling Performance Measurement Finance 40

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

JANUARY 19, 2018

Have sufficient Contingent Budget and Management Reserve to cover the cost variances from the naturally occurring cost behaviors, event-based impacts on cost, or cover things that go wrong with the Risk Cost coverage. Have sufficient Technical Performance Measures margin to cover the required performance measure of the Capabilities.

Performance Measurement 31

Performance Measurement Estimate Finance Manufacturing 31

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. Technical Performance Measures. Who's Budget is it Anyway? Who's Budget is it Anyway?

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. These principles originate in: .

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. These principles originate in: .

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28