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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. Different change cadences. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? Also, review performance measures.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). This starts with a Plan to deliver those Capabilities.

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

MPUG

Then planning. The planning, the executing, the monitoring, controlling, and hopefully you’re getting it right and refining and improving until bam, closing. So these eight, we’re talking about the stakeholders, team, development approach and life cycle, planning, project work, delivery, measurement, and uncertainty.

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Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Herding Cats

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. Hoping that the project will proceed as planned is naïve at best and poor management at worse. When these occur, a new plan is needed.

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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.

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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.