Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Strategy (#Strategy). Here's how to connect dots between strategy, mission success, programmatics, and technical performance management in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.

Technical Review 42

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

Project Management is the art of coordinating resources and directing working groups to execute components of work so that each group delivers components that can be tied together into a wholesome deliverable (contracted scope of work) within schedule and budget. Resource : An overall resource management strategy is made.

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Workamajig

JUNE 11, 2019

A robust PM system might tell you how a project is doing at any moment, but it can’t tell you how the organization or its constituent people are performing. Measuring and monitoring project management metrics fills this gap. Helps you demonstrate performance - a particularly important benefit for project and account managers.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eli Schragenheim is a respected expert in organizational improvement and strategy, celebrated for his deep knowledge of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). These seemingly minor uncertainties can cumulatively impact performance and disrupt detailed planning. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more.

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2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Project value delivery drives to fulfill its intended purpose and deliver tangible value that is aligned with the business strategy, with support from both stakeholders and business leaders. For example, customer satisfaction is one measurement that a project and operation use to identify whether value is realized.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This is a serious mistake for any non-trivial project or product that operates in the presence of uncertainty, deadlines, not-t-exceed budgets, and mandatory sets of capabilities that are produced in exchange for money. Progress and Value are measured with the same in Earned Value Management. The Measures of Performance are.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. That begs the question, did Hertz have a Strategy for this project? . Assessment.

Software Review 41

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

89% of high-performing organizations value project management, 81% actively engage sponsors, 57% align projects with business strategy. [6]. Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. 18% — Delivered within budget. 268% ROI. .

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

Without these measures, Done will usually mean we ran out of time and money. . Plans are strategies for success. Strategies are hypotheses. Estimating how much is the starting point. Show up over budget for the ERP, the ROI we told the Board of Director is now wrong. Estimating is part of risk management.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Hope is Not a Strategy. The Plan for the project is the Strategy for its successful completion. What are the “units of measure” for this increasing maturity? What are the “units of measure” for this increasing maturity? The answers to each of these questions require making estimates in the presence of uncertainty.

Risk Management 42

Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

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. 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?

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. 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?

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

You’ll need to do some groundwork to figure out which one is best for your specific needs based on factors such as team size, budget, and the complexity of the projects you work on. It enables you to schedule team members, tools, equipment, and facilities simultaneously, and generate performance reports to measure efficiency.

Software Review 52

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Without knowing what Done Looks Like, in units of Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Technical Performance Measures (TPM) - are defined at the start of a program—the planned progress of selected technical parameters. These MoE's and MoP's and other starts at the systems level [6].

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