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 . is a state of resource allocation performed by a project manager.

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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 . is a state of resource allocation performed by a project manager.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. 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.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

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.

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MPUG

JUNE 27, 2022

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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Governance Government Estimate Performance Measurement 52

Wrike

MARCH 4, 2021

It’s a process that includes tracking, measuring, reviewing, and aligning their goals with your organization to ensure a profitable partnership. The vendor agreement signed by both parties ensures your relationship is well-defined and measurable, reducing the chances of misunderstandings or a failed project.

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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." The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . Let's look at what an estimate is.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. Step 3: Be able to analyze the business and project management processes of other companies/organizations.

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Program Management (PM) is the process of managing a set of related projects, or programs, to achieve an objective. It is important to note that while project management focuses on individual projects or initiatives, program management deals with groups of related projects managed together to meet objectives over a given period.

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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. Before diving into the details of these, let me address another issue that has come up around project success and estimates.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

These risks can be mitigated with a good risk management process. For risks that are beyond the vision of the project team a properly implemented risk management process can also rapidly quantify the risks impact and provide sound plans for mitigating its effect. What are the “units of measure” for this increasing maturity?

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Having a knowledge transfer process in place boosts the chance of project success by over 20%. [6]. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Poor purchasing processes: 23%. 18% use word processing documents.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

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. Ingroup bias - a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff: Here are our process groups.

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MindGenius

JUNE 26, 2019

PRINCE2, NVP, Analogous Estimating etc. Some aspects to note before you start: Decide if your project will be process or product orientated. Stakeholder A Stakeholder is a person, group or organisation that has interest or concerns in the business. Project Management Terms for Team Leaders. You’re not alone!

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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. Ingroup bias - a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP has been studied, refined, and applied for over 40 years to be an effective approach to complex group decision making. [7]. Measurement theory is a well-debated topic and has been going on long before agile software developers started using Story Points [2], [4].

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The cross-references in the IMP such as OBS, SOW, and WBS elements tell the managers which groups are responsible for which efforts. When the initial IMP is prepared after contract award, it is common to have the performance team in place. The IMP is a good top-level checklist to see what needs to be done to reach each major milestone.

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Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

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.

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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.

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