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Cost Estimating Assessment Criteria

Herding Cats

Here are the guidelines for a credible cost estimate (GAO-16-620). Documents all cost-influence ground rules and assumptions. Details calculations performed and estimating methodology used. Estimate should lack bias; be neither overly conservative nor optimist. Regular updates cost estimate to reflect significant changes.

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Governance and Estimating

Herding Cats

Authority to influence behaviours. A structural component that pertains to the organisation’s information technology activities, the way those activities support the goals of the business, and the people who help manage those activities. Information & Technology Balance Sheet - Balanced Scorecard, Zachman .

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Back to Basics: What is Project Management and Why is it Important?

MPUG

General management: This area includes knowledge and skills related to staffing, organizing, financial management, accounting, procurement, sales and marketing, logistics, supply chain, and information technology. Realistic estimation and planning. Project Requirements. Consistent and speedy decisions.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate. Estimating and Reporting Agile Projects using the SRDR and Earned Value Management , PSM Users Group 2017, 12-16 June 2017, Crystal City, VA. Estimating and Reporting Physical Percent Complete on Agile Projects , DHS Cost Analysis Stakeholder Working Group, June 26, 2017.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

“For instance, large-scale engineering and construction projects are considered to be complicated projects, but they may not necessarily be complex projects (provided that the interactions with and the influences of the environment are trivial or rather predictable). And this can be done without knowing the details of the project plan.

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What is Strategy?

Herding Cats

Influences of IT Strategy. The IT Strategy components described above are based on the physical and logical technologies of the IT Infrastructure. These describe how, what, when, and where for the technology of the IT Strategy is to be deployed. The effects of this technology deployment are another element of the IT Strategy.

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Ranking the Most (and Least) Productive Industries

Redbooth

As the data above shows, company size plays a sizable role in productivity, but what other factors influence how quickly work gets done at a company? Information Technology and Financials get work done the fastest. Productivity by Industry. Next, we turn our attention to productivity by industry.