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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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.

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Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Herding Cats

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.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

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.