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.

Government 52

Government Governance Technical Review Sustainability 52

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.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Misaligned Incentives : Tying management incentives to traditional performance measures incompatible with Scrum or agile principles​​. I should consider this analysis of the origins of the gold-plating anti-pattern for the next revision of the book.)

SCRUM 183

SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 183

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Managing Government Grant Projects at Arizona Public Service - APS management process for Department of Energy grant for algae CO2 capture project. Project Performance Management.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Government Governance 42

nTask

APRIL 28, 2021

Process Improvement Tool #1: Gap analysis. Gap analysis examines and assesses performance to identify the difference between your current business state and where you’d like to be. To complete a gap analysis, you’ll need to define: The current situation, or performance. The ideal situation, or potential.

Sustainability 120

Sustainability Process Underperforming Technical Team Lean 120

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. This approach is guided by the processes for Root Cause Analysis on Software Intensive System of Systems project I've worked. Root Cause Analysis. Getting it Right. Court Document. Assessment.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review 2018 Engineering 41

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.

Performance Measurement 35

Performance Measurement 2017 Technical Review 2008 35

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. In our domain, Root Cause Analysis is mandated before ANY suggested change for improvement, prevention, or corrective actions are taken. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Measure of Effectiveness. Measure of Performance.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Measures of Performance - are performance measures that characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. Measures of Performance. The Technical Performance Measures. The decision.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Process Narratives may be used to facilitate contractor commitment to the use of crucial processes and procedures and provide the Government with an understanding of the proposed crucial processes and procedures prior to contract award. The contractor’s immediate customer may be a government organization or a prime contractor.

Planning 42

Planning Software Review Government Governance 42

Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

There are several partitions of this information that are common in building the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association. Several other government estimating organizations. The PMB is a time phased, budgeted description of the project.

Estimate 34

Estimate Logistics Performance Measurement Government 34

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. risks that may prevent the end item from performing as intended or not meeting performance expectations. risks that affect the cost and schedule measures of the program.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete. This physical percent complete is measured as compliance with the Technical Performance Measures of the outcomes of the work efforts, that consume the budget for that work. Technical Performance Measures.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Approach Analysis : A technique to analyze the various methods that can be used to meet the project's goals. Approach Analysis is used during the Planning phase of each project. Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. A project sponsor can request an audit. its "critical path").

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

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 analysis and management of stakeholder needs is also known as ecosystem. This is also known as governance or guidance.

Infrastructure 36

Infrastructure Performance Measurement Monitoring Sustainability 36

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).

Performance Measurement 39

Performance Measurement Estimate Risk Defining 39

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. Our topic is Increasing the Probability of Program Success Thorugh Continuous Risk Management. .

Aerospace 37

Aerospace Estimate Government Governance 37

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business. Root Cause : The failure to understand that in the presence of uncertainty, prioritization is a probabilistic process of assessing the possible outcomes - Analysis of Alternatives - for each decision.

Estimate 46

Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

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. . Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

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). Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Don't ever do analysis of cost and schedule variances without first understanding the accuracy and precision of the original estimate. Don't ever make suggestions to make changes to the processes without first finding the root cause of why the actual performance has a variance with the planned performance.

Estimate 28

Estimate 2003 Technical Review Aerospace 28

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. . Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well. If the vehicle gets overweight, money and time are needed to correct the undesirable variance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

In our domain this is the Performance Measurement Baseline, which is a time-phased budget plan for accomplishing work against which contract performance is measured. But margin, management reserve, analysis of alternative is standard project management process of dealing with the indeterminate elements of projects.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The 2008 mortgage crisis for example (although many did an made lots of money), the government didn't. An important outcome of Macroeconomics is establishing the appropriate interest rates in an economy, where the government sets a base rate and banks work from there. Microeconomics is about individual or company behaviors.

Software Review 34

Software Review Estimate Technical Review Software Developers 34

Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

Increasing the Probability of Project Success Simple in Theory, Complex in Practice. When we hear any suggestion about improving the probability of success of a project, there are some simple tests to confirm there actually is such a thing. This means having a set of Principles, Process, and Practices to test the suggestion against.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

It is an organized methodology for continuously identifying and measuring unknowns; developing mitigation options; selecting, planning, and implementing appropriate risk mitigations; and tracking the implementation of the mitigation and planned margins to assure successful risk reduction.

Risk Management 42

Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

We can't talk about estimates or estimate, without also talking about the precision and accuracy of the estimate (the noun) after we have performed the estimate (the verb). . What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something.

Estimate 46

Estimate Risk Management Risk SCRUM 46

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

No matter the size of the project. No matter the project domain. No matter the engineering processes used to produce the outcomes from the project. There are Five Immutable Principles of project success. These principles are Immutable because they are universally applicable.

Estimate 39

Estimate Risk Management Risk Engineering 39

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Government – Federal. Government – City/State/Local. Top 5 PPM Functions: Portfolio tracking & performance monitoring – 75%. Portfolio analysis, project selection, & prioritization – 65%. Implement/enhance performance measurement process – 39%. [13]. 116,100. . 113,000. . Information/. Technology.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted. I remember that. They had a stakeholder section before. They got resources. How do we get our baselines?

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59