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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.

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Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Herding Cats

This Plan needs to define: How the products and services will be “matured” as the project progresses? What are the “units of measure” for this increasing maturity? It serves no purpose to have a risk plan and the defined mitigations in the absence of a risk communication plan. Risk communication is the basis of risk mitigation.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

These standards serve as the 'benchmark' against which performance can be measured. Benefits Framework: This defines the expected benefits of the project, the specific operations it would affect, and how the project's performance would be; a) realized, and b) measured. In most projects, this unit is 'hour'.

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Is Macroeconomics and Social Science the Same as Software Development?

Herding Cats

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. This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). probably not. Of course not.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

Now up to this point, session number one of our series, we were discussing a system for value delivery, which meant for the most part, PMI wanted to paint five primary contextual concepts defining the system for value delivery. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase? It makes sense. They did an excellent job.

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