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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nTask

MAY 5, 2021

The analysis can help you make reasonable conclusions and evaluate the feasibility or desirability of any project or decision. History of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). Jules Dupuit used the basic principles in his job at a bridge project in helping determine tolls. Usually, costs are easy to estimate and quantify.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

In this way, the construction of the pyramids was a complex project that required careful management in order to be successful. Project Management as a Profession As a Profession , it has its roots in the 1950s and 1960s when the U.S. government began using it to manage complex defense projects.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Turns out in the real world there is no such project. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value?

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education. The Scope of this project was massive. Estimates put the workforce at up to 40,000 people at the height of construction.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. As well, these costs and the benefits from expending those costs produce tangible and many times the intangible value.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

There are two types of contingency typically used on projects: Budget contingency: Additional funding to deal with problems, realized risks relating to a specific event Schedule contingency: A buffer of extra time in case of schedule delays (not that you would ever pad your estimates?). Cost Baseline available through PMIstandards+ ).

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. De Meyer, C. 5887, 2009.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Product Development (#ProdDev).

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Project Bliss

MARCH 27, 2017

I know this firsthand, just by watching reactions when I tell someone I’m a project manager. When I took my first job as a project manager, my mother asked what I do. My sisters have careers she’s a bit more familiar with: chemical engineer, civil engineer, real estate development. Managing vendors.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

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." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21. Boehm, Barry W.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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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.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. Complexity Primer (Sandia).

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We use Vitech's Core.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The conjecture that we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impacts of those decisions is without any principles that can be tested beyond personal anecdotes of I know people who spend other peoples money without providing estimates. We need to learn how to predict with credible methods.

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Scoro

APRIL 26, 2022

CMAP is also a project management tool you should consider for efficient work management. CMAP comes with a job cost calculator feature known as Free Estimator Templates that can be customized to fit your organization’s requirements. Get the complete visibility you need to manage people and projects profitably.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . And, my customer is equally as clueless about the need to estimate as I am. I suspect the latter. .

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You need to track project progress at a glance—but in a way that you can collaborate with your team, spot potential problems, and compare progress against your project plan or statement of work. We’ve already seen how Toggl Plan helps you stay on top of team and project schedules with visual, drag-and-drop timelines.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. They started out with their glorious introduction saying, look, we’re going into more systems engineering angle at this.

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