MPUG

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Another major project related happening was the growing popularity of value engineering (VE), which was widely used at General Electric. This functioned to help measure the value of alternatives (for example, using cheaper resources and/or materials to reduce project costs or design-to-cost) especially when there was a scarcity of resources.

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PMI Certification 2003 Engineering 81

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. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T. Causes of Risk Taking by Project Managers,” Michel N.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 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.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

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. Laitonen, J.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Software Development (#ASD). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Five Immutable Principles of Project Success - There are many (possibly too many) methods for successfully managing a project. The Project Management Paradigm , Carnegie Mellon University , Silicon Valley.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

proponents "are people (that) tend to have experience/careers in industries and on projects where scope is fungible.". Software Estimating - Pawel commented on the previous post about the difficulties in making estimates of duration and cost of software. How to Estimate Software Development - Update.

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Estimate Risk Management Finance Software Developers 39

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JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37