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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. Strategy artifacts. The first category is documentation that relates to strategy and project initiation. Logs and registers.

Logistics

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

Here’s the list: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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The 5 Phases of Project Management Process and Techniques

NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Project management is a multifaceted discipline that combines techniques, processes, and strategies to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects effectively. Planning involves breaking down the work into manageable tasks, estimating resource requirements, and creating schedules and budgets.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

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.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Project Performance Management. Connecting the 5 Principles and 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management ® To Increase the Probability of Project Success. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Measures of Product Value is Exchange for Its Cost. Technical Performance Measures.

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Project Execution: A Four-Step Project Management Strategy

Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Project Execution is a project management strategy that incorporates continuous processes and activities to monitor, control, and communicate progress on projects. Create an estimate: The first step to create an estimate in project execution is to determine a range of hours for the task. Download Project Management Templates !

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11 Critical Project Management Metrics Every Agency Needs to Track

Workamajig

JUNE 11, 2019

This is all the more true for project management where you’re usually dealing with a mix of hard and soft data. 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.

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Project Management Process & Phases

ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

Planning includes creating strategies for managing, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risk, communications, procurement and also making a plan for stakeholder engagement. . The activities are then sequenced, and the duration required for each activity is estimated. Resource : An overall resource management strategy is made.

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Risk Management Frameworks in IT: A Comparative Analysis

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

However, with this reliance comes the inherent risks of cyber threats, data breaches, and operational disruptions. It encompasses the identification of potential vulnerabilities, threats, and the potential for unauthorized access to critical systems and data. Monitoring the effectiveness of risk management strategies is also crucial.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Suggested Fix Can Be Effective

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 28, 2016

In a recent Blog post titled Precision it is suggested Precision (or the implication thereof) is perhaps the root problem of most, if not all dysfunction related to estimation. . Estimates have precision and accuracy, but the reason for these unfavorable outcomes is not stated in the post. Information Technology Estimating Quality.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

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. Comparing benchmarking data is often difficult to do if the two companies have very different project management cultures.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. System One is an unconscious system that is automatic, fast, efficient at using the data or experience it already knows. In Kahnemann's Thinking Fast and Slow there are three biases. †.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. System One is an unconscious system that is automatic, fast, efficient at using the data or experience it already knows. In Kahnemann's Thinking Fast and Slow there are three biases. †.

Transportation

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011

Project Management Terms for Team Leaders

MindGenius

JUNE 26, 2019

PRINCE2, NVP, Analogous Estimating etc. It is important to identify your Stakeholders at the start of a project because you need to create a strategy in managing, communicating and involving them in the project. Measure: measure your data, by doing this you will be able to understand what parts are working and what is not.

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6 Tips for Better Schedule Management

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 24, 2019

There are many ways to create a project schedule, but creating and managing a good project schedule takes calculation, time, strategy and collaboration. Estimate & Review the Time it Takes to Complete Each Task. Our reports are fully customizable to get you the data you need. 6 Schedule Management Tips.

Software Review

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

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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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eli Schragenheim is a respected expert in organizational improvement and strategy, celebrated for his deep knowledge of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). These seemingly minor uncertainties can cumulatively impact performance and disrupt detailed planning. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more.

2016

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Deconstructing the Hertz and Accenture Debacle

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. That begs the question, did Hertz have a Strategy for this project? . Assessment.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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

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Integrated Master Plan - Revisited

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Plans are Strategies. A Strategy is a Hypothesis. The role of the Integrated Master Plan is to provide the Strategy for the successful completion of the program. The RFP normally includes a Statement of Work (SOW) and Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) that are invaluable in determining the scope of the IMP.

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Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

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.

Risk Management

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

When we hear about software development disasters and then hear that estimates are to blame, and NOT Estimating will somehow reduce or prevent these disasters, think again. Each of the categories operates in the presence of uncertainty and requires that estimates be made about the probability, conseqeunce of the resutling risk.

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What Is Risk?

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

risks that may prevent the end item from performing as intended or not meeting performance expectations. Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, Technical Performance Measures, and Key Performance Parameters describe the measures of these expectations. Programmatic ?

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The data and statistics below are sorted into categories so you can quickly skim to find the information you need. 89% of high-performing organizations value project management, 81% actively engage sponsors, 57% align projects with business strategy. [6]. Re-entering lost data: 45%. Inadequate cost estimates – 29%.

2015

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What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Without knowing what Done Looks Like, in units of Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Technical Performance Measures (TPM) - are defined at the start of a program—the planned progress of selected technical parameters. MOPs can be accumulated to assess a MOE that is not directly measurable.

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INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. Data and Process Independence might be a goal, but even then the reality of a complex system like Health Insurance is simply not a set of Independent set of User Stories assembled into a system.

Underperforming Technical Team

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INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

That means the system architecture, the process flow, the data flow architecture components all how NO dependencies on other. Data and Process Independence might be a goal, but even then the reality of a complex system like Health Insurance is simply not a set of Independent set of User Stories assembled into a system.

Underperforming Technical Team

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management

Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Eli Schragenheim is a respected expert in organizational improvement and strategy, celebrated for his deep knowledge of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). These seemingly minor uncertainties can cumulatively impact performance and disrupt detailed planning. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more.

2016

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare

Best project scheduling software in 2022

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

Features like time tracking, reporting, and performance measurement are incredibly helpful if efficiency is your main concern – but they’re not available in all project schedulers, and are rarely available on any low-tier plans. Their pricing strategy is pretty straightforward. Collaboration.

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The 5 Phases of Project Management Process and Techniques

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Project Execution: A Four-Step Project Management Strategy

11 Critical Project Management Metrics Every Agency Needs to Track

Project Management Process & Phases

Risk Management Frameworks in IT: A Comparative Analysis

Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Suggested Fix Can Be Effective

PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Project Management Terms for Team Leaders

6 Tips for Better Schedule Management

Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Deconstructing the Hertz and Accenture Debacle

The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Integrated Master Plan - Revisited

Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

What Is Risk?

Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm

INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Best project scheduling software in 2022

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