Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The growth of cost and schedule is not unique to commercial development. This is from one of our presentations from a International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association meeting on the same topic. One case of 12 projects from a large contractor of Software Intensive System (SIS) shows similar variances .

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are there projects missing deadlines, going over budget, or failing to meet expectations within your organization? This project office is important for organizations managing multiple projects simultaneously as it helps to ensure their completion on time, within budget, and within the scope required.

PMO 52

PMO Governance Government 2014 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. 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.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Doing so, you get most issues resolved and meet your project deliverables – but, when it came to reporting, you were clueless as to how to go about it. It refers to a set of methodologies utilized to meet the ever-changing client requirements. The amount of money allocated to a specific project is referred to as the project budget.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Approach Analysis : A technique to analyze the various methods that can be used to meet the project's goals. Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project. Budget at Completion (BAC): BAC is the sum total of all budgets established for the work to be performed.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

customer satisfaction prioritized over arbitrarily meeting a deadline. Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. And from his project's data that may well be true. But a more important idea is missing in the article.

2007 42

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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

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. 71% meet scope. 68% meet quality standards. 60% meet expected benefits. [4]. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. 61% meet scope. 60% meet quality standards. 51% meet expected benefits. [4].

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

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. . Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 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, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

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. Root Cause: Productivity is the efficacy of the investment of time, talent, and money.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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. . Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Notice the term unrealistic.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 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. I was used to different software.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59