Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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. Systems engineering has its roots in the fundamentals, principles, and models of foundational systems sciences, and associated management and engineering sciences.

Engineering 32

Engineering Risk Management Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team 32

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.

Performance Measurement 37

Performance Measurement Controlling Risk Management 2005 37

Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

The management of SISoS is really no different than the management of any other enterprise class software system. There are several partitions of this information that are common in building the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). The PMB is a time phased, budgeted description of the project.

Estimate 34

Estimate Risk Management Performance Measurement Budget 34

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

The goal of every program manager is to have a set of practices that connect all the programmatic planning, risk, and performance information in a single unified view needed to support the decisions that increase the probability of success of any project or program. Cost is measured in dollars and schedule is measured in time.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Performance Measurement Risk Management Engineering 44

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

Root Cause Analysis is Risk Management, that asks the question what is the condition or activity that will create a risk to the success of our project? With this information, the management of the project installs corrective or preventive actions to remove or reduce as much as possible those conditions and activities.

Software Review 41

Software Review Risk Management Technical Review Estimate 41

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Active reduction requires we have a desired reduction goal, perform the work, and measure progress toward the rduction goal. Measure of Effectiveness.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Risk Management Performance Measurement Estimate 35

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

The best starting point for determining the NEEDED precision and accuracy is to determine the Value at Risk. . 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. .

Estimate 46

Estimate SCRUM Risk Management Agile 46

Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

In both cases, these create a risk to the success of the project. These risks - aleatory and epistemic - must be handled in some way if they are to not have an undesirable impact on the outcome of the project. IT Risk Management. Focusing on Value is good business practice, common sense, and completely logical.

Risk Management 40

Risk Management Agile Estimate Budget 40

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 community of program controls, cost analyst, earned value managers and program managers is accountable for providing information to decision makers on enterprise and complex projects and programs. Technical Performance Measures.

Estimate 28

Estimate Software Engineering Risk Management Performance Measurement 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Risk Management 28

Risk Management Technical Review Software Review Estimate 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Risk Management 28

Risk Management Technical Review Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Risk Management 28

Risk Management Estimate Technical Review Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

Show up over budget for the ERP, the ROI we told the Board of Director is now wrong. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. No risk management plan with mitigations, the risks are still there, and we're not managing other people's money like adults. No Adult Management.

Risk Management 39

Risk Management Estimate SCRUM Risk 39

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

In this domain, we applied traditional program and project management methods for cost and schedule management at the top level. The system can be a business system, a collection of hardware and software for defense or space, a weapons systems, a business management systems. No not to exceed budgets. No Deadlines.

Software 31

Software 2001 Estimate Agile 31

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Risk Management 28

Risk Management Estimate Technical Review Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

In this domain, we applied traditional program and project management methods for cost and schedule management at the top level. The system can be a business system, a collection of hardware and software for defense or space, a weapons systems, a business management systems. No not to exceed budgets. No Deadlines.

Software 28

Software 2001 Estimate Agile 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. 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 Risk Management. Of course not.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

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. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. These principles originate in: .

Software Engineering 39

Software Engineering Risk Management Software Review Software Developers 39

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Unrealistic performance expectations missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unrealistic Cost and Schedule estimates based on inadequate risk adjusted growth models. Inadequate accessment of risk and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans.

Estimate 28

Estimate Risk Management Technical Review Risk 28

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.

Risk Management 59

Risk Management PMI Estimate Planning 59

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

Estimate 44

Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 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. Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. These principles originate in: .

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Risk Management Software Review Software Developers 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Systems engineering is a methodical, multi-disciplinary approach for design, realization, technical management, operations, and retirement of a system. Systems Management is the Science of Systems Engineering. Systems Management is focused on rigorously and efficiently managing the development and operation of complex systems.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

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 is standard Product Management.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers 46

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. Benefits of Project Management. —1A. Project Management Methodologies. —1B. Project Management Best Practices. —1C.

2015 60

2015 PMO Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 60