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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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Fallacy of the Week

Herding Cats

Have sufficient Technical Performance Measures margin to cover the required performance measure of the Capabilities. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. It is a fallacy to say that you can deliver on time, every time - in the presence of uncertainty - without estimating.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Manufacturing. Business services (2 million jobs) and Manufacturing (630,000 jobs) supported the greatest number of project management roles in 2010. Popularity by Industry: Finance – 87%. Manufacturing – 66%. Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. Finance – 93%. . $107,200.

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Systems Engineering and Software Intensive System of Systems

Herding Cats

Finance, social, political. INCOSE has a Systems Engineering Journal as well with papers speaking to software development complexities . Technical Performance Measures. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. The notion that systems are somehow unmanageable is fine in some domains.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is usually a cost, a completion date, a performance measure used in a closed loop control system to keep the project GREEN while delivering the needed Capabilities to produce the Value for the customer at the needed time for the needed cost.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM): An agile software development methodology that uses an iterative, incremental approach to project execution. While it's mostly used for software projects, it can also be used for non-software projects. The two main techniques to achieve this are fast tracking (i.e.