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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.

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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. Is it Eric?

Performance Measurement

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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

The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures.

Performance Measurement

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008

Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

Software Developers

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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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What Resources will be needed to reach Done?

Transportation

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review

Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Abstracted from [3].

2010

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 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). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

Reducing Estimation Uncertainty with Continuous Assessment: Tracking the 'Cone of Uncertainty’” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Chatchai Sinthop and Barry Boehm, Center for Systems and Software Engineering University of Southern California , Los Angeles, CA 90089, ASE’10 , September 20–24, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium, 2010. 37–48, 2007.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

Underperforming Technical Team

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review

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. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What Resources will be needed to reach Done?

Transportation

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011

INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method, was introduced by Steward in for task-based system modeling and initially used for planning issues. This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course .

Underperforming Technical Team

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management

INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method, was introduced by Steward in for task-based system modeling and initially used for planning issues. This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . Allen School of Computer Science Software Engineering Course .

Underperforming Technical Team

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

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

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

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