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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Cost Estimation The process of estimating project costs is done by leveraging historical data, expert judgment, or quantitative models.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Project Breathalyzer.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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.

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A Better Microsoft Project: Baselining

MPUG

sized company where she taught a MS Project class, she asked the group: “How often do you baseline your project?” The CFO, named Nob (fictitious name), proud of his consistent and perfect project performance, answered promptly: “Every week!” Ellen Lehnert, a long-standing Project MVP, tells the story that at one medium?sized

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

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.

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Connecting "What" with "How" - and the Failure to Understand the Principles of Systems Engineering and Systems Management

Herding Cats

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.

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The creation and management of the Plan is usually performed by the Program Planning and Controls group where I work. . Of late, Cone of Uncertainty has become the mantra of No Estimates advocates claiming that data is needed BEFORE the Cone is of any use.