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.

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Project Governance. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Project Performance Management.

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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?

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Software Review Governance Government Infrastructure 139

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. Department of Energy.

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Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

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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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 17, 2016

Objectives and performance measures for these staff should include a healthy balance between operational and project success metrics. The prompt communication & escalation of issues and risks is encouraged and identified issue or risk owners are encouraged to respond in a timely manner.

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2016 PMO Influencer Performance Measurement 120

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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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? .

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2010 Governance Government Performance Measurement 39

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.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

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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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.

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Performance Measurement Technical Review 2017 2008 35

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. Our topic is Increasing the Probability of Program Success Thorugh Continuous Risk Management. . Risk-Adjusted Plans. Cost Impacts.

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Aerospace Estimate Governance Government 37

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.

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2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

KPPs have a threshold or objective value that characterize the major drivers of performance that are considered Critical to Customer (CTC). Technical Performance Measures (TPM) – are attributes that determine how well a system or system element is satisfying or expected to satisfy a technical requirement or goal. Scalability.

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Performance Measurement Estimate Risk Defining 39

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Active reduction requires we have a desired reduction goal, perform the work, and measure progress toward the rduction goal. Measure of Effectiveness.

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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.

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Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. A critical success factor for all project work is Risk Management. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

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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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

The best starting point for determining the NEEDED precision and accuracy is to determine the Value at Risk. . If I'm risking two weeks of work for the Scrum team of 5 people it's a much different need from the risk of a $10B manned spaceflight program being supported to congress for budget authorization. . Answer 2 weeks.

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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.

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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.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

No matter the engineering processes used to produce the outcomes from the project. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. No risk management plan with mitigations, the risks are still there, and we're not managing other people's money like adults. Estimating is part of risk management.

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Estimate Risk Management Risk Engineering 39

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Unrealistic performance expectations missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Unrealistic Cost and Schedule estimates based on inadequate risk adjusted growth models. Inadequate accessment of risk and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Risk Management (#RM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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.

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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.

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Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. Now To Risk Management. Risk is the effect of uncertainty of objectives.

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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. Root Cause Analysis is Risk Management, that asks the question what is the condition or activity that will create a risk to the success of our project? Were there: Measures of Effectiveness.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. Certain information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes are often unknown until the project is underway.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Designing, building, testing, and deploying complex systems is fraught with risk. And as always risk comes from uncertainty. Much has been written about the sources of risk and how to Manage in the Presence of Uncertainty (This briefing describes how risk is managed for each element of the Integrated Master Plan). .

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Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Accept: A response to a project risk where the project manager accepts the risk and takes no action to evade it, i.e. 'accepting' the risk. This is usually in case of risks that are unlikely to occur or minor enough so as to not affect the project's outcome. Allocation: Another term for Resource Allocation.

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Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

Embedded systems, data processing, image processes, web interfaces, backend databases, networking of collections of devices on the ground and in the air, training systems, logistics systems, maintenance and testing systems. People, Processes, and Tools all interacting in complex and complicated ways. . A better definition is .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

The goal of every program manager is to have a set of practices that connect all the programmatic planning, risk, and performance information in a single unified view needed to support the decisions that increase the probability of success of any project or program. Cost is measured in dollars and schedule is measured in time.

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