ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Related: Project Scheduling Software. Estimate & Review the Time it Takes to Complete Each Task. In order to properly calculate your schedule, you’ll need to factor in all dependencies and estimate the time it will take to complete each task, as well as the project as a whole. How to Make a Good Project Schedule.

Software Review 278

Software Review Risk Management Risk Performance Measurement 278

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate.

Development Team Review 148

Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

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. Capabilities Based Planning.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. This is from one of our presentations from a International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association meeting on the same topic. I'd suggest the Principles for project success on non-trivial software efforts are universal.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Schedule Baseline as a Performance Baseline Component . It’s a component of a performance measurement baseline that consists of scope, schedule, and cost baselines and is included into a project plan. This information can be used to improve project time estimates in the future. . Baselining.

Software Review 98

Software Review Estimate Monitoring Performance Measurement 98

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

If your organization is struggling to keep projects on track with spreadsheets, emails, and files that seem to vanish right when you need them – you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a huge variety of project scheduling software out there that can put an end to your woes. As with all software, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2022 Software Technical Review 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. The shortest time estimated to complete a specific project task or activity is known as optimistic duration. Performance Measurement Baseline. It is an estimation technique based on an expert consensus.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement 2017 Technical Review 2008 35

Wrike

AUGUST 30, 2021

Without the right software to organize all the project information, projects can go off track — so having a PMIS (or project management information system) comes in handy. A PMIS is a software program or application that organizes and controls the flow of project data and information. What is PMIS?

Software Review 36

Software Review Estimate Budget Monitoring 36

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

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

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. Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. The customer is accountable for knowing what Done Looks Like (in Unity of measure meaningful to their domain).

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Bottom-Up Estimating . Bottom-Up EAC (estimate at completion) Method .

Software Review 45

Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 45

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

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. Let's look at one example.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Workamajig

JUNE 11, 2019

A robust PM system might tell you how a project is doing at any moment, but it can’t tell you how the organization or its constituent people are performing. Measuring and monitoring project management metrics fills this gap. The tools you’re using to measure the metric must have a low error rate. Calculating Actual Cost is easy.

Estimate 93

Estimate Budget Infrastructure Performance Measurement 93

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Bottom-Up Estimating . Bottom-Up EAC (estimate at completion) Method .

Software Review 40

Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 40

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

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). Prentice-Hall, 1981. This is due to many reasons.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

Research shows that for projects, especially software projects Aleatory uncertainty is the predominant source of risk. All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Software Risk Management , Barry W. No References?

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. Is this macroeconomic model a correct operational model for software development processes - measuring changes the target ? See the law below. .

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Modeling is at the heart of Program Planning and Controls. PP&C lives in the domain of Project Management and Controls, which is a Technical Management Processes of ISO 15288. The will happen of course is dependent on externalities, some under our control some not. Those under our control need to be part of the model.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

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

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. Besides the process, software, and User Experience modeling of the interdependent components, Risk Management and most critically Risk Propagation can be modeled with DSM. Actual software process flows contain loops. Independent of what?

Underperforming Technical Team 32

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 32

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. Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. In which case, there’s a lot to do with the performance domains that you can see remnants from the Sixth Edition.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That would mine all the User Stories are standalone pieces of software. Besides the process, software, and User Experience modeling of the interdependent components, Risk Management and most critically Risk Propagation can be modeled with DSM. Actual software process flows contain loops. Independent of what?

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. 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?

Agile 44

Agile Finance Software Developers Software Development 44