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. Who's Budget is it Anyway?

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Organizations that use a methodology: 38% meet budget. VS. Organizations that don’t use a methodology: 31% meet budget. More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. 18% — Delivered within budget.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 60

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Unrealistic performance expectations missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Defining the Measures of Performance, the resulting Measures of Effectiveness, and the Technical Performance Measures of the resulting project outcomes is a critical success factor.

2003 28

2003 Estimate Technical Review Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. This is called back to green where we work.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

About a third of projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with the desired scope. The Vice President of Project Management Capabilities at an aerospace company urges project managers to be intentional. Performance Measures Setting and tracking performance measures impacts net project success scores.

Aerospace 78

Aerospace Cadence 2025 Performance Measurement 78

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For approaches that have been implemented on existing systems, obtaining such understanding may require measurement and analysis. For scenarios where the project under consideration does not yet exist, performance prediction using analytical modeling or simulation is necessary. In our aerospace and defense business - not so much.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41