Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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. Who's Budget is it Anyway?

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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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2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It is applied through the application of systems engineering processes within a managed lifecycle working with a number of other management, engineering, and specialist disciplines. Progress and Value are measured with the same in Earned Value Management. To connect What with How we start with the Technical Performance Measures.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. Technical Performance Measures.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

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.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process. In both cases, these create a risk to the success of the project.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing Estimate Risk Management Budget 40

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. .

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). The processes is an engineering discipline.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

No matter the engineering processes used to produce the outcomes from the project. Show up over budget for the ERP, the ROI we told the Board of Director is now wrong. So when you hear - well that process you're talking about is applicable in your domain but not mine. No matter the size of the project.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Risk Engineering 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

If I'm risking two weeks of work for the Scrum team of 5 people it's a much different need from the risk of a $10B manned spaceflight program being supported to congress for budget authorization. . To learn more about estimating on Agile programs read Chapter 5 of the bibliography below. Related articles.

Estimate 46

Estimate Risk Management Risk SCRUM 46

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

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.

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Management Processes.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. .

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Don't ever make suggestions to make changes to the processes without first finding the root cause of why the actual performance has a variance with the planned performance. So what's the summary so far: All project work is probabilistic, driven by the underlying uncertainty of many processes. . Related articles.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

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.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

This approach is guided by the processes for Root Cause Analysis on Software Intensive System of Systems project I've worked. Were they based on the established planning processes for complex Software Intensive System of Systems? Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance. Key System Attributes.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Allocation describes the process for assigning resources for different project activities in the most efficient way possible. Allocation: Another term for Resource Allocation.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

If the development work has no deadline , no not to exceed budget, no Minimal Viable Capabilities in the sense of MVP's meaning without these CapaCapabilitieslemented by there Features we cannot Go Live on the needed date for the needed budget, then the phrases in the quote may be applicable.

Agile 44

Agile Finance Software Developers Software Development 44

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9].

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

Embedded systems, data processing, image processes, web interfaces, backend databases, networking of collections of devices on the ground and in the air, training systems, logistics systems, maintenance and testing systems. People, Processes, and Tools all interacting in complex and complicated ways. . A better definition is .

Estimate 34

Estimate Logistics Performance Measurement Governance 34

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When buffers are made visible, trust is crucial; without it, their presence can reinforce negative stereotypes, painting them as budget inflators rather than strategic tools. However, when implementing a buffer management system, a single focus on individual projects or processes can be short-sighted.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

In the same way, when we build a unified set of principles, practices, and processes, and the information they depend on for successful program management by connecting unrelated pieces and parts a confusing and disjointed view of the program is the result. This is like building a tree by gathering sticks and rubber banding them together.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Performance Measurement Engineering Estimate 44

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

The elements include all hardware, software, equipment, facilities, personnel, processes, and procedures needed for this purpose; that is, all things required to produce system-level results. The results include system-level qualities, properties, characteristics, functions, behavior, and performance.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

These risks can be mitigated with a good risk management process. For risks that are beyond the vision of the project team a properly implemented risk management process can also rapidly quantify the risks impact and provide sound plans for mitigating its effect. Risk Management Process Model.

Risk Management 42

Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

In our domain this is the Performance Measurement Baseline, which is a time-phased budget plan for accomplishing work against which contract performance is measured. It includes the budgets assigned to scheduled control accounts and the applicable indirect budgets. Of course not. What is a Team?

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

When buffers are made visible, trust is crucial; without it, their presence can reinforce negative stereotypes, painting them as budget inflators rather than strategic tools. However, when implementing a buffer management system, a single focus on individual projects or processes can be short-sighted.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff: Here are our process groups.

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59