The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Continuous Improvement The ongoing effort to improve a project process, product, or service to achieve better results. Cost Estimation The process of estimating project costs is done by leveraging historical data, expert judgment, or quantitative models. May also be called a project management plan.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

Some of the risks facing project management organizations are presented in the sections that follow. COSTLY IMPLEMENTATION One of the biggest challenges facing organizations in the implementation of AI will be the implementation cost. The world appears enamored and highly interested in AI applications.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We’ve prepared an overview of the most important project management documents ordered from the project initiation phase to its closure. A Business Case: Presenting the Idea of a Project . A business case is a document that helps decision-makers determine whether a project is worth the investment.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 13, 2024

You will learn how to initiate procurement, define precise project requirements, select capable suppliers, and negotiate contracts that protect your interests—all while maintaining alignment with broader organizational goals. Efficient resource planning and risk assessment are key components here.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In their session, Kalpesh and Carolyn detailed how Radial’s PMO deployed Wrike to over 600 users within four months and it now serves as the system of record for the entire project life cycle.

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MPUG

JUNE 19, 2023

Resource Allocation If there are changes in the availability, capacity, or allocation of project resources, a change order may be required. This can include modifications to the workforce, equipment, materials, or subcontractors involved in the project. Identify potential risks and benefits associated with the requested changes.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. We do not have the luxury of throwing resource at projects and simply hoping that in the future people will look back and say, ‘what a great project that was’! Risk Must Be Factored in At Every Stage.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our present age, we are breaking new ground trying to make things better. And organizations refer to nations, which are comprised of companies, governments, and other entities. Meta Cities enable transient advantage – and represent a risk for further outlying cities. How can we transfer goods better from place to place?

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Project Cost Management often puts people off. But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Project cost over-runs are common. The governance considerations for project cost management.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Estimates can be about the past, present, or future. We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. Project cost, schedule, and technical performance Estimates.

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Rich Murphy’s showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance. Rich: Okay, Kyle.

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Rich Murphy’s showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance. Rich: Okay, Kyle.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. If we do not have a sufficient buffer to protect the plan from these naturally occurring variances, our project will be impacted in unfavorable ways. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What is project contingency? Contingency can be defined as additional resources put aside to address potential risk and uncertainty in a project. Contingency allows us to present final budget estimates as a range, as you can see in the Figure below. Calculating Anticipated Final Cost and confidence range.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

For two categories of uncertainty Foreseen Uncertainty and Unforeseen Uncertainty, some form of “mitigation” must be present in order to improve the chances of success. Acquiring Data Retires Risk. One role of the project manager is to reduce or retire risk. This supposes a risk management system of course.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

For two categories of uncertainty Foreseen Uncertainty and Unforeseen Uncertainty, some form of “mitigation” must be present in order to improve the chances of success. Acquiring Data Retires Risk. One role of the project manager is to reduce or retire risk. This supposes a risk management system of course.

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Velociteach

MARCH 4, 2024

And the thing I like about Bent is that he spent, well, 20-something years gathering a lot of data about projects and their performance. And one of the interesting takeaways from his recent book is that four out of five projects cost more than expected and deliver less benefits than we had hoped.

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Project Bliss

MARCH 27, 2017

Completing rework due to defects and poor quality increased the project costs. Use quality management tools and processes throughout the project. Your project may require external resources, such as purchases or work from vendors external to your organization. Managing risk. Managing vendors. Reporting.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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International Institute for Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Without tools such as AI, more people will be required to staff portfolios and projects to scan new areas of risk and opportunity not considered relevant. How many organisations had a pandemic affecting operations on their 2019 risk registers? Project managers had little input on who would be assigned. Kerzner, Ph.D.,

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Risk avoidance and risk reduction activities – Sure, maybe. Here’s a typical backlog showing a combination of features, change requests, bug fixes and a couple of risk reduction activities. Working as a developer at Data Sciences Ltd in the UK I wrote a program to manage our work tasks on a government project.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Just the links below to jump to the right project management term: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W. 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. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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Scoro

APRIL 26, 2022

If you need to quote in a different currency, choose from rate cards in foreign currencies, including supplier costs, and add third parties to your quote. CMAP provides a 360 view of clients, including a breakdown of past, present, and future projects and performance data that highlights how successful your projects are.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And often enterprise project management tools are for technically-trained project managers. As a result, you need a robust project management tool that accurately tracks your project costs, budgets, and scope in a way that gives each specialized team everything they need to get on with their work.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . They don't care about cost, risk, schedule, the probability that they'll get what they paid you for.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . They don't care about cost, risk, schedule, the probability that they'll get what they paid you for.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

- There is an immutable set of questions that need answers before we can determine the probability of success for our project. Predicting the Future - With the #NoEstimates topic still ringing in my ears, here's an interesting presentation from one of the supporters of this concept. What's Gonna Cost and When Will We Be Done?

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Define the risks - reducible and irreducible - to each Capability and their Features.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

Why Monte Carlo Simulations of Project Network can Mislead,” Terry Williams, Project Management Journal 35(3), pp. Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. Which models of the past are relevant to the present? Bool, CrossLink: The Aerospace Corporation, Winter, 2000/2001, pp. 61, September 2004.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

I’ll hand the presentation over to you. Let me find out where I’m presenting from. Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted.

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