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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. A Few References and Resources . Sources of Weapons Systems Growth: Analysis of 35 Major Defense Acquisition Programs ". GAO cost estimating and assessment guide. Parametric Cost Estimating Handbook.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Project Performance Management. Connecting the 5 Principles and 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management ® To Increase the Probability of Project Success. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline. Measures of Product Value is Exchange for Its Cost. Event-Based Scheduling , 10 November 2006.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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risks that may prevent the end item from performing as intended or not meeting performance expectations. Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, Technical Performance Measures, and Key Performance Parameters describe the measures of these expectations. 3, August 2006, pp.

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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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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

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The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?10. Coping with the Cone of Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of the SAIV Process Model,” Da Yang, Barry Boehm, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, and Mingshu Li, ICSP 2007 , LNCS 4470, pp. 37–48, 2007.

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Deconstructing The Cone of Uncertainty

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Don't toss out the notion that reducing risk and uncertanty and all other performance measures doesn't follow the plan. . Software Measurement and Estimation: A Practical Approach , Linda M. Carol Brennan, John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Laird and M. 37–48, 2007. .

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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.