Estimate, Governance, Performance Measurement and Technical Review

Phrases Used for Technical Performance Measures

Herding Cats

MAY 16, 2019

Measuring progress must be in units meaningful to the decision maker. For any system, estimates of future life-cycle costs are subject to varying degrees of uncertainty. This bounding of the cost estimate may be attempted through sensitivity analyses or through a formal quantitative risk analysis. Am I getting.

Performance Measurement

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course.

Performance Measurement

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: And welcome to Part 2 of MPUG’s Project Performance Measurement course.

Performance Measurement

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Webinars

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.

Development Team Review

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What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management

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

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Risk Management Frameworks in IT: A Comparative Analysis

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Organizations of all sizes and industries are relying on technology to drive their operations and deliver services. These controls can include technical and administrative measures such as policies and procedures. The importance of risk management in IT cannot be overstated.

Risk Management

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

Estimate

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

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

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008

Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. 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. The Cone of Uncertainty is the framework for improving the needed performance of the project. Measure of Effectiveness.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

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. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

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 due to many reasons, one is levels of uncertainty early in the project. Estimating Probabilistic Outcomes?

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

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). This is due to many reasons. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

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. Unanticipated technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness.

Technical Review

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review

The Problems with Schedules

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Unrealistic performance expectations missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unrealistic Cost and Schedule estimates based on inadequate risk adjusted growth models. Unanticipated Technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness. Just the estimate.

Technical Review

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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. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] Acosta, and Angel Garcia Crespo, Behavior and Information Technology, 32(11):1?9, Flyvbjerg, H. Skamris & S. Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

Transportation

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Management Processes (#MP).

Technical Review

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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. Buhl, Transport Reviews, 24, 1, 3-18. [2] Acosta, and Angel Garcia Crespo, Behavior and Information Technology, 32(11):1?9, Flyvbjerg, H. Skamris & S. Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

Transportation

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011

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

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018

Integrated Master Plan - Revisited

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most IMPs in development programs include Events for major design reviews such as PDR or CDR. The IMP shows the Accomplishments and the measures of Accomplishments that are essential to get through a design review. If the organization is restructured or the WBS is changed, review the IMP and update it accordingly.

Planning

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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. Research clearly shows the root causes of most software projects cost and schedule overruns and technical shortfalls comes from poor risk management.

Software Developers

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Government – Federal. Technology. Government – City/State/Local. Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: .

2015

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review

Physical Percent Complete: Knowing When You Are Done

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

Cost is measured in dollars and schedule is measured in time. Technical performance is likewise difficult to integrate with either cost or schedule because its units of measure vary with the subject matter. What does done look like for entry/exit into the technical review? How do you know all this?

Technical Review

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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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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

” Eli Schragenheim The lesson is: when you ask for a clear one-number estimation, without defining the level of common and expected uncertainty, then you either might face big surprises or face frequent occurrences, where the project/mission finished exactly on time.

2016

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare

Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

Software Review

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

” Eli Schragenheim The lesson is: when you ask for a clear one-number estimation, without defining the level of common and expected uncertainty, then you either might face big surprises or face frequent occurrences, where the project/mission finished exactly on time.

2016

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare

Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. When that one is going to wait two days before the assignments due to just say, hey, why don’t we change this to that? Melanie: Hello.

PMI

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Project Management Update

Phrases Used for Technical Performance Measures

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

Webinars

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

Webinars

125 Project Management Buzzwords

What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management

Risk Management Frameworks in IT: A Comparative Analysis

4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

The Problems with Schedules

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Deconstructing the Hertz and Accenture Debacle

Integrated Master Plan - Revisited

Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Physical Percent Complete: Knowing When You Are Done

The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

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