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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning. Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

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In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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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.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.