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. Department of Energy.

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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. But we view the transitioning risk template as proprietary knowledge not to be shared.”. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Our topic is Increasing the Probability of Program Success Thorugh Continuous Risk Management. . The origins of this paper came about at a recent JSCC meeting here in Boulder, with local Aerospace contractors, the DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency) and several government agencies (NRO and NASA). Risk-Adjusted Plans.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More than 90% of organizations perform some type of project postmortem or closeout retrospective. [9]. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. How Project Success is Measured: 20% — Satisfied stakeholders. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects.

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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.

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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. We need a formal risk management process.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Vice President of Project Management Capabilities at an aerospace company urges project managers to be intentional. Planning Scope, Schedule, and Cost Planning the projects scope, schedule, and cost while balancing risk, quality, and other factors is always challenging. As Peter Drucker said, What gets measured gets done.

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