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. OMB A-11 Part 7.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Foundations of portfolio management The first article by Steve Butler outlines the fundamental concepts and definitions of portfolio management. Foundations of portfolio management The first article by Steve Butler outlines the fundamental concepts and definitions of portfolio management.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Governance Government 52

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 14, 2024

It defines it, compares and contrasts it from similar approaches, and then looks at the impact of leveraging Value Innovation in the practice of strategy and project management – developing a Value Innovation Strategy. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their book “ Blue Ocean Strategy.”

Innovation 52

Innovation Sustainability Performance Measurement Risk Management 52

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Governance Government 42

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Finally, it details the use and benefits of the tool for practicing strategy and project management. The Strategy Canvas tool is a management tool introduced by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their book “ Blue Ocean Strategy.” It then walks through several examples – generically and for two real companies.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Retail 105

LiquidPlanner

MAY 28, 2020

Statements of work are very common in project management, so you are going to come across many more in your career. Dependencies on other tasks or projects should also be included so you can adequately manage them together. Check that the change control process is documented, along with risks, assurance, and quality measures.

Software Review 139

Software Review Governance Government Infrastructure 139

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles. Systems engineering has its roots in the fundamentals, principles, and models of foundational systems sciences, and associated management and engineering sciences.

Engineering 32

Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

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. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp.

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Performance Measurement 2017 Technical Review 2008 35

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Read a book on good writing. The first book is Beyond Bullet Points , Clif Atkinson. Here's a summary of that book. The next book is Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation and the 3rd book is Do I Make Myself Clear: Why Writing Matters , Harold Evans. Measures of Performance.

Process 56

Process Estimate Engineering Performance Measurement 56

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Active reduction requires we have a desired reduction goal, perform the work, and measure progress toward the rduction goal. Measure of Effectiveness.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. Project management practitioners are looking for new lean and agile project management tools to support their day-to-day work and often seek them outside the tools that their organisations offer them. Digitalization and Collaboration.

Software Review 150

Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. The internal organizational units can also be responsible for evaluating external literature related to project management.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. Without units of measure of Value beyond time and money, there can be not basis of comparison between one value based choice and another. They define compliance to performance requirements. They identify technical risk.

Performance Measurement 49

Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Software Developers 49

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. AHP can be used as a Value Management System to organize the criteria and assess trades off costs and benefits in considering total value. References . [1]

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Technical Review 2010 2014 Software Developers 47

Wrike

JULY 1, 2020

Smarter hiring, workplace culture initiatives, and day-to-day operational excellence are all priorities in the industry, meaning that project management for HR has never been more important. In fact, HR professionals are increasingly adopting project management tools to improve their processes and workflows. .

Underperforming Technical Team 36

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Performance Measurement Executing 36

Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management.

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2012 2007 2010 2006 29

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

For project management domain, what are some Principles? With execution underway, managing the risks of the project becomes our focus beyond the engineering work. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. Managing in Presence of Uncertainty.

Process 53

Process Engineering Software Developers Software Development 53

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.

Estimate 28

Estimate 2003 Technical Review Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 5, 2017

and the connections between each Process are made to form a Closed Loop control systems needed to manage any project. These charts are an extract from the book Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success and the abstracted training materials Handbook.

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Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

AUGUST 19, 2016

Setting targets and measuring performance against that target is the basis of all closed loop control systems used to manage projects. In our domain this control system is the Risk Adjusted Earned Value Management System (EVMS). Without setting a target to measure against, we have: No baseline control.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Estimate Software Developers Software Development 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. 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. IT Risk Management. probably not.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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Software Review Estimate Technical Review Software Developers 34

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Here's a paper that has been under constant development for several years now and is headed to a Journal and part of an upcoming book chapter. The motivation for the paper started when there were claims made the somehow agile software projects were different than other types of projects. In practice there are differences.

Software 48

Software Agile Performance Measurement Risk Management 48

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Corrective Action/Preventative Action: Productivity in software development is simple to define and measure: One start is to use Earned Value Management, but we won't get there. This is standard Product Management. Done by every Product Manager for every Product Company. Estimates are NOT Guesses.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . All these books are in print.

Risk Management 43

Risk Management Risk 2003 2011 43

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This ignores the principles of predictive analytics, and the direct management actions taken to produce outcomes from those analytical models found everywhere from project management to grocery store management and the model-based systems engineering. In ISO 15288 this is the role of the Risk Management Processes.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

This is a new Category on Herding Cats that comes from my finishing of the book Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics , Gary Smith. How to Lie with Statistics , Darrell Huff - t his is the first book you should have on your shelf, no matter what role you play at work or in life.

Engineering 52

Engineering Performance Measurement Risk Management Risk 52

Resource Guru

JUNE 14, 2022

But a great project scheduler goes a step further by placing a focus on the wellbeing of the humans in your workplace – reducing project fatigue and ensuring your team members can manage their daily workload and stay physically, mentally, and emotionally productive. Time management. Resource management. Collaboration.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2022 Software Technical Review 52

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security.

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59