The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Activity An activity is the actual, specific task that must be performed in a project, i.e., the tactical level of work. Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Project Performance Management.

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Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. But if the development work is a Project is a fixed period of performance, for a fixed (with margin) budget, and a fixed set of Capabilities, then the question is can agile be used to develop the software?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. Project Governance It oversees project governance, ensuring that each aligns with the strategic goals. What is a Project Management Office?

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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.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. The customer is accountable for knowing what Done Looks Like (in Unity of measure meaningful to their domain). Anything less results in systems not worth having or fail to function or perform. [3],

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Customer value or the desired outcomes are established at the start of projects.

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Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Prerequisites for portfolio management In the first article, Steve Butler delves into portfolio governance. The primary goal of governance in portfolio management is to ensure that processes are established to define, align, authorize, and control portfolio elements, while also supporting overall governance decision-making activities.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 25, 2018

People are the raw material for teams, for not only Agile Program Management teams, but for almost every human based endeavor. This is obvious but many times lost when discussing agile processes. Continuous performance assessment by measuring the right thing. They are two sides of the same coin.

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since a project management culture is a behavioral culture, benchmarking works best if during the comparison we have benchmarking best practices that include topics such as leadership, management, governance, or operational methods that lead to superior performance. Identification of governance and leadership effectiveness.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

Key Performance Parameters (KPP) – Represent the capabilities and characteristics so significant that failure to meet them can be cause for reevaluation, reassessing, or termination of the program. KPPs have a threshold or objective value that characterize the major drivers of performance that are considered Critical to Customer (CTC).

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It's been said by an agile voice that. The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. Technical Performance Measures.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

We play this role in ERP acquisitions for commercial and government clients . Past Performance is the 1st question - have you done this before and if so, were your efforts successful? Extensibility requires measures of effectiveness and measures of performance be defined BEFORE any work starts. Reducible risks.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. Be it traditional or agile, or anything in between. Tim Lister's original quote is used when every we see dysfunction is.

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Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

There are several partitions of this information that are common in building the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). In Agile the Product Roadmap and Release Plan are the basis of the PMB. Several other government estimating organizations. The PMB is a time phased, budgeted description of the project.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

The audit, surveillance, performance reporting, measurement are at the core of all business processes. Agile development works best when there is a trust but verify paradigm. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business. Related articles.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This applies not only to messaging, but also to your strategic plans, tactical plans, process designs, people, tools, performance measurement – really, everything that Marketing does. This is also known as governance or guidance. Always start with WHO.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Technical Performance Measures are one of four measures describing how a project is making progress to plan. Measure of Effectiveness. Measure of Performance.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

To learn more about estimating on Agile programs read Chapter 5 of the bibliography below. There you'll also find materials on risk management, capabilities-based planning, and other agile processes as they are applied to Software Intensive System of System for mission critical programs where we work.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. The Buff's won and are now the PAC-12 South Champs. Of Course Not. .

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates. risks that affect the cost and schedule measures of the program.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

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2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). It can be the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the software project. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. You Can’t Understand Agile Without Understanding Hayek. This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). Let's look at one example.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

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. . Agile 2008 Conference. [18]

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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). Agile 2008 Conference. [18]

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

It prepares teams for unforeseen challenges, enhancing the organization’s agility and responsiveness to change. Historical performance measured in Epicflow Conclusion While time buffers are valuable tools, their utility is severely compromised if capacity buffers are ignored.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

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. . Agile 2008 Conference. [18]

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It prepares teams for unforeseen challenges, enhancing the organization’s agility and responsiveness to change. Historical performance measured in Epicflow Conclusion While time buffers are valuable tools, their utility is severely compromised if capacity buffers are ignored.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

So when you hear an agile purest talking about the I in Invest, ask is there is any business process loops, interdependencies between systems compoenents, externalities. Interdependencies and the risk that is propagated through this interdependencies in the above matrix can be shown as a graph. The I in Invest is probably a good idea.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

So when you hear an agile purest talking about the I in Invest, ask is there is any business process loops, interdependencies between systems compoenents, externalities. Interdependencies and the risk that is propagated through this interdependencies in the above matrix can be shown as a graph. The I in Invest is probably a good idea.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Importantly, it also defines governance, oversight, and management review processes. Performance Measures Setting and tracking performance measures impacts net project success scores. As Peter Drucker said, What gets measured gets done. Alan is a frequent keynote speaker and thought leader.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Agile Project Management. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management. 38% of organizations report using agile frequently. [6]. 75% of highly agile organizations met their goals/business intent, 65% finished on time, and 67% finished within budget. Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%.

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