Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Managing Government Grant Projects at Arizona Public Service - APS management process for Department of Energy grant for algae CO2 capture project. Project Performance Management.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Governance 52

Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Understanding Risk Management in IT Risk management in IT involves the identification, assessment, and prioritization of IT-related risks, followed by the application of coordinated and economical controls to minimize and control the probability and impact of these risks.

Risk Management 36

Risk Management Risk Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 36

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

"On spec" is open loop control on value. Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. Here are definitions from "Technical Measurement," INCOSE-TP-2005-020-10. Measures of Performance.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Gap can also exist for performance improvement expectations such as: Reduction in risk by a certain percentage, cost, or time. Improvement in estimating accuracy by a certain percentage or dollar value. Identification of governance and leadership effectiveness. Cost savings of a certain percentage or dollar value. Conclusion.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. We play this role in ERP acquisitions for commercial and government clients .

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. This physical percent complete is measured as compliance with the Technical Performance Measures of the outcomes of the work efforts, that consume the budget for that work. The Measures of Performance are.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

What does done look like for quality control? Determination of physical percent complete is rooted in performance measurement, the comparison of actual performance against an integrated baseline plan consisting of integrated cost, schedule, and technical goals. What does done look like for the customer?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Performance Measurement Engineering Estimate 44

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Transparent – Comprehensible display of what needs to be done and how completion is measured. Controlled – Configuration-controlled, approved, and kept aligned to contract modifications. Controlled. For these reasons, the IMP should be a configuration controlled document. The IMP reflects the contracted work.

Planning 42

Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

and the connections between each Process are made to form a Closed Loop control systems needed to manage any project. These charts are an extract from the book Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success and the abstracted training materials Handbook. With some details for each process area.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. risks that may prevent the end item from performing as intended or not meeting performance expectations.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Knowing what ranges are possible and knowing what ranges are acceptable is a critical project success factor.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. Technical Performance Measures. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Knowing what ranges are possible and knowing what ranges are acceptable is a critical project success factor.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute (in this post, cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Project Managers constantly seek ways to eliminate or control risk, variance, and uncertainty. Attempting to control these variances outside their natural boundaries is a waste (Muda). What are the “units of measure” for this increasing maturity? No Point Estimate of Cost or Duration can be Correct.

Risk Management 42

Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

But if the development work is a Project is a fixed period of performance, for a fixed (with margin) budget, and a fixed set of Capabilities, then the question is can agile be used to develop the software? The answer is, of course, it can and it is done every single day in many domains I work in.

Agile 44

Agile Finance Software Developers Software Development 44

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

We invite you to join in today with questions and comments by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. In addition to that, as well as the PMI standards plus to lead the way for the immediate processes, the techniques when it comes to things like estimating or requirements management and things along those lines.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

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. It includes the budgets assigned to scheduled control accounts and the applicable indirect budgets. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

We always want to minimize the number of interfaces between modules, minimize the complexity of each interface, and control the type of info flow. In general, modules tightly coupled if they use shared variables or if they exchange control info. In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions.

Underperforming Technical Team 32

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

We always want to minimize the number of interfaces between modules, minimize the complexity of each interface, and control the type of info flow. In general, modules tightly coupled if they use shared variables or if they exchange control info. In the presence of uncertainty, estimates is needed to make decisions.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

The emphasis os Systems Management is on organizational skills, processes, and persistence Process definition and control are essential to effective, efficient, and consistent implementation. Without knowing what Done Looks Like, in units of Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39