Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

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.

PMO 52

PMO Governance Government 2014 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 10, 2019

A critical missing component of software development, especially agile software development, and even more especially agile software development is the notion of a System and a System of Systems. Measures of Performance. Key Performance Parameters. Technical Performance Measures.

Planning 50

Planning Performance Measurement Software Developers Software Development 50

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Capabilities Based Planning. Capabilities Based Planning (V2). Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Deliverables Based Planning. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Performance Management.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

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. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Here's a typical graph showing a core problem in the software development domain. . There are a collection of projects that started with an estimate at completion and as these projects are executed they didn't turn out as planned - and most importantly they didn't turn out as needed. . The Fallacy of the Planning Fallacy.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. probably not.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Leading Agile

APRIL 29, 2021

In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs.

Finance 84

Finance Agile Performance Measurement Estimate 84

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

Development Team Review 148

Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. This physical percent complete is measured as compliance with the Technical Performance Measures of the outcomes of the work efforts, that consume the budget for that work.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. Contingency Plan.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It covered identifying requirements, interconnecting tasks, resources, planned values, actual values, baselines, performance measures, forecast techniques and timesheets. The implementation strategy requires having a plan with the final objectives defined. Implementation Issues.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Does the code produce the Planned Capabilities that were paid for?

Software Review 28

Software Review Technical Review Performance Measurement Estimate 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. We produce Value at the end of every Sprint Value is the most important aspect of Scrum based development. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform. We focus on Value over cost.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Here's some examples of Planned variances and managing of the actual variances to make sure the project stays on plan. In this case, the projected base weight is planned and the planned weights of each of the major subsystems are laid out as a function of time. At that point it's Too Late, the Horse has left.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices. And, you know, ultimately the thing that slows software development down is fear of change.

Software Review 124

Software Review Fractional CTO Technical Review Agile 124

Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Traditional project management approaches, several of which are based on a strong belief in the cone of uncertainty, advocate stronger project control and greater planning. While controls and planning are useful, an overly strict focus can result in attempts to solve the wrong goal. This assumes of course the Plan is credible.

2007 42

2007 2012 2006 2008 42

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Inadequate assessment of risks and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. The Cone is NOT the result of the project's past performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Rarely the case in software development, where Little's Law is misused often. The OP claimed Goodhart's Law was the source of most of the problems with software development. What this says is again when the measure becomes the target, that target impacts the measure, changing the target. .

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

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 ). The response to change rate ‒ how fast can you make corrective actions to the system to keep it on plan.

Closing 28

Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Wrike

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You can use these four key metrics to measure the performance of a software development team and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your DevOps operations overall. It measures how quickly your team can respond to needs and fixes, which is crucial in the development world. Why use DORA metrics?

Underperforming Technical Team 36

Underperforming Technical Team 2018 Development Team Review Software Developers 36

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes?

Transportation 39

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 39

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan and the Schedule for the work in that Plan to reach Done for the needed cost on the needed date to deliver the needed Value to those paying for the work? What are the units of measures of progress to plan for each deliverable?

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Modeling is at the heart of Program Planning and Controls. It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. In the product development world, the funding, recording of revenue, management of staffing at the financial level is managed as a Project. It’s impossible to gather all requirements in beginning 4.

Agile 44

Agile Finance Software Developers Software Development 44

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

INCOSE has a Systems Engineering Journal as well with papers speaking to software development complexities . Guide the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge - speaks to topics like Product road maps are essential for software intensive systems that have many releases of software and capability upgrades.

Engineering 28

Engineering Software Performance Measurement Finance 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. References .

Technical Review 47

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2018

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What dos Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes?

Transportation 28

Transportation Software Engineering Finance 2011 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. Let's start with Mr. Bliss's chart.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

66% said they choose a project management software based on level of support available. [10]. 68% use the project plan documentation. 53% use project management software. Unrealistic schedule/reactive planning. Top 5 PPM Functions: Portfolio tracking & performance monitoring – 75%. Ease of use. [10].

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

“Shrinking the Cone of Uncertainty with Continuous Assessment for Software Team Dynamics in Design and Development,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn,”Ph.D. Improving Software Development Tracking and Estimation Inside the Cone of Uncertainty,” Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Thanida Hongsongkiat, and Barry Boehm, Technical Report USC?CSSE?2012?504,

2012 29

2012 2007 2010 2006 29