Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Each of these has been presented at a conference, published in a refereed journal, or a book or a chapter in a book, or presented during a client engagement. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

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. NASA Cost Estimating Handbook.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) states that a PMIS is “an information system consisting of the tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of project management processes. The information is also critical for future projects in terms of reducing risk, improving efficiencies and lowering costs.

Project Life Cycle 213

Project Life Cycle Software Review Closing Budget 213

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their book “ Blue Ocean Strategy.” Performance Measurement: The Strategy Canvas can serve as a tool for monitoring and measuring the performance of projects, programs, and portfolios over time. What is the Strategy Canvas Tool?

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Retail 105

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.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

LiquidPlanner

MAY 28, 2020

Check that the change control process is documented, along with risks, assurance, and quality measures. You can ask them to include any performance measures or warranties that you feel are appropriate so that both parties understand how success will be judged. The SOW should also talk about project governance. .

Software Review 139

Software Review Governance Government Infrastructure 139

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. 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. Technical Performance Measures.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures. The specifics of the Technical Performance Measures applied to inform Physical Percent Complete and the Cone of Uncertainty around the TPM are shown here.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement 2017 Technical Review 2008 35

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

This is a new Category on Herding Cats that comes from my finishing of the book Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics , Gary Smith. How to Lie with Statistics , Darrell Huff - t his is the first book you should have on your shelf, no matter what role you play at work or in life.

Engineering 52

Engineering Performance Measurement Risk Management Risk 52

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Read a book on good writing. The first book is Beyond Bullet Points , Clif Atkinson. Here's a summary of that book. The next book is Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation and the 3rd book is Do I Make Myself Clear: Why Writing Matters , Harold Evans. Measures of Performance.

Process 56

Process Estimate Engineering Performance Measurement 56

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The book that contains that paper and provides the specific approach to modeling the future is Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building , Georg E. You can get this book on Amazon for $10.00, read it and confirm that the opening conjecture is a fallacy. Box, Willaim G. Hunter, and J.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

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.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. Without units of measure of Value beyond time and money, there can be not basis of comparison between one value based choice and another. They define compliance to performance requirements. They identify technical risk.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Gap can also exist for performance improvement expectations such as: Reduction in risk by a certain percentage, cost, or time. Our company would not be happy giving this template to everyone who wants to purchase a book for $85. But we view the transitioning risk template as proprietary knowledge not to be shared.”.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. References . [1]

Technical Review 47

Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In parallel, organisations demand greater project collaboration capabilities to deal with more challenging projects and improved portfolio analytics to better manage portfolio risk but cannot find an all-in-one tool to satisfy all their needs. She writes the blog GirlsGuidetoPM.com and regularly reviews emerging software tools online.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

Features like time tracking, reporting, and performance measurement are incredibly helpful if efficiency is your main concern – but they’re not available in all project schedulers, and are rarely available on any low-tier plans. Collaboration. But with Resource Guru, we’ve made it simple to manage workloads across multiple projects.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2022 Software Technical Review 52

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

Using formal project management processes, procedures, and tools can help lower risk and increase success on all of these long-term HR activities. It’s one of the 10 major project management process areas in the PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge). Establishing productivity and performance measures for the team.

Underperforming Technical Team 36

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

2012 29

2012 2007 2010 2006 29

Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

These charts are an extract from the book Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success and the abstracted training materials Handbook. These Five Immutable principles are time phased into Processes that provide answers to the Five Principles. With some details for each process area.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

With execution underway, managing the risks of the project becomes our focus beyond the engineering work. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. With all this in place - to whatever scale is appropriate for the problem at hand, we need the final pieces. Related articles.

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

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 2003 Estimate Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Setting targets and measuring performance against that target is the basis of all closed loop control systems used to manage projects. In our domain this control system is the Risk Adjusted Earned Value Management System (EVMS). Without setting a target to measure against, we have: No baseline control. Related articles.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success. taken from [3]).

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Developers 34

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Here's a paper that has been under constant development for several years now and is headed to a Journal and part of an upcoming book chapter. The motivation for the paper started when there were claims made the somehow agile software projects were different than other types of projects. In practice there are differences.

Software 48

Software Agile Performance Measurement Risk Management 48

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

In our domain this is the Performance Measurement Baseline, which is a time-phased budget plan for accomplishing work against which contract performance is measured. IT Risk Management. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects. probably not.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

You have your integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, stakeholders, right? Jeff: You know, employees consistent risk evaluation. Don’t be surprised if you’re reading through something like the uncertainty performance domain. Where’s the talk about risk?

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Corrective Action: Yes, those paying for your work have a fiduciary need to know how much it will cost in the end and along the way, when the Value will be arriving, and even to know that the Value producing Features in the Product Raodamp will be arriving in the order they need to start booking that Value. . IT Risk Management.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46