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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

LiquidPlanner helps you estimate timelines by listing tasks and then applying ranged estimations. Detailing out each step with a high – low estimate on how long it will take to complete each task allows you to see when you can realistically achieve your goals. What are your mid-year milestones? Too many fires to fight.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls. Project Governance.

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Fallacy of the Day

Herding Cats

In the Project Controls paradigm, Value is a measurable attribute of the project controls process - a Closed Loop Control measure. Measures of Performance - are performance measures that characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. is a Fallacy.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

Nowadays, even non-PMP-certified workers are taking on work that closely resembles a traditional projects, and the desire to manage them better is growing every year. Be Prepared for Project Management Trends in 2022 with This White Paper. AIPM National Conference.

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7 Key Considerations for Building the Perfect PMO

LiquidPlanner

You need a solution that helps you plan, estimate, deploy resources and capture in real-time the impact of changes made as projects progress and priorities shift. However, I believe that by applying these key PMO best practices and following the guidelines I’ve laid out here will help you get close. What do you think? Let’s discuss!

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls - project management is a closed loop control system. Architecture (#Architecture). What is Risk?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. Define the probabilistic ranges of the work in a single point estimate manner. There are databases for Function Points .