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Cost Estimating Assessment Criteria

Herding Cats

I'm working an Implementation Review (IR) of a major space flight vehilce, that includes Software Intensive System of Systems. . Here are the guidelines for a credible cost estimate (GAO-16-620). Defines program, reflects current schedule, technically reasonable. Documents all cost-influence ground rules and assumptions.

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What is Strategy?

Herding Cats

Porter, Harvard Business Review, Volume 74, Number 6, pp. Language - it helps develop a set of thought processes for addressing complex concepts and communicates them precisely with few, non-technical words. Influences of IT Strategy. The effects of this technology deployment are another element of the IT Strategy.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? A Critical Review Of Risk Management Support Tools,” Irem Dikmen, M. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. De Meyer, C.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? A Critical Review Of Risk Management Support Tools,” Irem Dikmen, M. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. De Meyer, C.

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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). The field of Project Complexity is wide-open and not well defined.

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How Stakeholder Interaction and Engagement Impacts Project Complexity

International Institute for Learning

During the process of deciding the aim and main objective of my PhD research [1] , an important element was to create a model that could support project managers, estimators and practitioners when dealing with project complexity. Not all stakeholders have the same level of power and their influence on a project varies.

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Monte Carlo Risk Analysis in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

This is particularly useful in a process that cannot easily be predicted due to the intervention of random variables. It supports a detailed risk analysis, offering a range of probable outcomes instead of a single estimate. The costs being analyzed are Engineering, Marketing, and Information Technology (IT) Equipment.