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

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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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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras,

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras,

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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Or ANY software project for that matter. In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. In a forecast, the assumptions represent expectations of actual future events. 2] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , SXE-10, Janurary, 1981, pp. Sales forecasts.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. 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."