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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

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Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty, Todd Little, IEEE Software , May/June 2006. Who's Budget is it Anyway? A Few References and Resources . Sources of Weapons Systems Growth: Analysis of 35 Major Defense Acquisition Programs ". GAO cost estimating and assessment guide. Department of Energy.

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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). Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline - without a good foundation, nothing can be built. Risk Management (#RM).

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Deconstructing The Cone of Uncertainty

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Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. The notion of reducing uncertainty may be possible, but shipping on time and budget may be meaningless if a competitor ships greater value. Carol Brennan, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

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When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1] 14] Galorath, D.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

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The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). Resources. [1] 14] Galorath, D.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

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When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . 14] Galorath, D. and Evans, M.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

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All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. Stewart, ACTEX Publications, 2006. Loch, Arnoud DeMeyer, and Michael Pich, Wiley, 2006. This is good, but it doesn't reduce risk. It just closed the loop faster.