Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Chapter 5 covers the agile project management model and then the rest of the book covers the process and project lifecycle in detail, with chapters on governance, scaling and performance measurement. However, it covers all the important stuff, organized around the topics covered in the agile manifesto. Buy on Amazon.

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PMI Certification Estimate Software Review 195

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. There is No Such Thing as Free.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

LiquidPlanner

MAY 28, 2020

Governance. The SOW should also talk about project governance. . Check that the change control process is documented, along with risks, assurance, and quality measures. For example, do they need you to have any base infrastructure or processes in place before their solution can work?

Software Review 139

Software Review Governance Government Infrastructure 139

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Business Analysis A process in which an individual identifies business needs, defines solutions and facilitates change to meet organizational goals. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters.

Development Team Review 148

Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. Step 3: Be able to analyze the business and project management processes of other companies/organizations.

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Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2019

While making money is the overriding mandate of any for-profit enterprise, each individual organization is governed by its own set of standards and practices. Those standards and practices are called corporate governance, and they are going to influence your project. What Is Corporate Governance? Roles in Corporate Governance.

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Governance Government Influencer Executing 271

Kiron Bondale

APRIL 17, 2016

Objectives and performance measures for these staff should include a healthy balance between operational and project success metrics. Leaders spend significant effort ensuring that the structure and processes for project governance are efficient and effective.

2016 120

2016 PMO Influencer Performance Measurement 120

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

COBIT Framework The COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) framework is a comprehensive governance and management framework that focuses on aligning IT with business objectives. It provides a set of control objectives, best practices, and management guidelines for effective risk management and IT governance.

Risk Management 36

Risk Management Risk Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 36

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). DP6Jw is an overview of this process. Stochastic process control is the field of study. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. Here's a summary of these elements.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The only answer to that is a measure of Physical Percent Complete (P%C). P%C starts with defining the Measures of Performance and Technical Performance Measures for each deliverable as a function of time. These measures are supported by Quantifiable Backup Data. What is your actual condition? .

2010 39

2010 Governance Government Performance Measurement 39

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. Project controls are concerned with the metrics of the project – quantities, time, cost, and other resources and their measurable beneficial outcomes for the project.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

ProProfs Project Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It enables knowledge workers to do their jobs efficiently via tools such as spreadsheets, presentation software, bookkeeping tools, data processing tools, calculators, etc. . However, once it is in place, automation gets rid of redundancy and makes the most effective use of technology in the workplace to deliver unparalleled performance. .

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Technical Review Software Review Monitoring Innovation 87

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It is applied through the application of systems engineering processes within a managed lifecycle working with a number of other management, engineering, and specialist disciplines. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. Technical Performance Measures.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Ron Rosenhead

JANUARY 30, 2017

Now, I’m not saying you simply ask; build the process into whatever you are doing. Set it up with a questionnaire which asks some key questions including some regarding your performance. Yes, the inevitable marketing – we can develop a simple 360 process…. Yes, ask your sponsor, project team, suppliers….Now,

Retail 100

Retail Performance Measurement Planning Process 100

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. So let's look at the principles, processes, and practices that will be in the White paper when it is complete. Risk Management Processes.

Aerospace 37

Aerospace Estimate Governance Government 37

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

Key Performance Parameters (KPP) – Represent the capabilities and characteristics so significant that failure to meet them can be cause for reevaluation, reassessing, or termination of the program. KPPs have a threshold or objective value that characterize the major drivers of performance that are considered Critical to Customer (CTC).

Performance Measurement 39

Performance Measurement Estimate Risk Defining 39

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Technical Performance Measures are one of four measures describing how a project is making progress to plan. Measure of Effectiveness. Measure of Performance.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. Technical Performance Measures.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Providing the content was a simple process and only took a few minutes. I was surprised that ChatGPT did not require some processing time, as it claimed it would be immediately available. Group them into categories such as culture, process, or organizational structure.

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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 179

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened. Similarly, product lifecycle management (PLM) integrates people, data, processes and business systems. The audit, surveillance, performance reporting, measurement are at the core of all business processes.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

This means having a set of Principles, Process, and Practices to test the suggestion against. These Five Immutable principles are time phased into Processes that provide answers to the Five Principles. and the connections between each Process are made to form a Closed Loop control systems needed to manage any project.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Management Processes.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). The processes is an engineering discipline.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1] Air Force. [4]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Don't ever make suggestions to make changes to the processes without first finding the root cause of why the actual performance has a variance with the planned performance. So what's the summary so far: All project work is probabilistic, driven by the underlying uncertainty of many processes. . Related articles.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process. In both cases, these create a risk to the success of the project.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing Estimate Risk Management Budget 40

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

No matter the engineering processes used to produce the outcomes from the project. So when you hear - well that process you're talking about is applicable in your domain but not mine. No matter the size of the project. No matter the project domain. There are Five Immutable Principles of project success.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Risk Engineering 39

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

There you'll also find materials on risk management, capabilities-based planning, and other agile processes as they are applied to Software Intensive System of System for mission critical programs where we work. To learn more about estimating on Agile programs read Chapter 5 of the bibliography below. Related articles.

Estimate 46

Estimate Risk Management Risk SCRUM 46

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Because of that, we don't separate the thinking processes into a dual-system. A process based on tangible evidentiary materials.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

MPUG

JUNE 27, 2022

I myself found that at both a major bank and a major government department, project managers were re-baselining their projects every week, and when I asked why, their answers essentially were, “Just because we can.” Ellen clarified: “Do you re-baseline your entire project every week?” “Yes” Yes” was the emphatic answer.

Governance 52

Governance Government Estimate Performance Measurement 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

This approach is guided by the processes for Root Cause Analysis on Software Intensive System of Systems project I've worked. Were they based on the established planning processes for complex Software Intensive System of Systems? Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance. Key System Attributes.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review Engineering 2018 41

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

When the initial IMP is prepared after contract award, it is common to have the performance team in place. CAMs are available to generate the bottom-up detail planning that fits with the top-down planning of the IMP development process.

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Planning Software Review Governance Government 42