Herding Cats

MAY 16, 2019

Budget control is mandatory for any credible management of other peoples money. Call me when you find a customer who thinks it is cheaper to not plan and forecast the short, medium, and long term expected performance in exchange for a planned cost, delivered at the needed date to fulfill the business mission.

Performance Measurement 33

Performance Measurement Technical Review Estimate Risk Management 33

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Project Governance. Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. effectively and efficiently.

Development Team Review 148

Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

nTask

APRIL 28, 2021

It’s important to manage your business outputs, aka the product/service/project, but to then supplement this management by process control – especially when it comes to creating a sustainable business, as I’ll explain. Keeping these two things separate means you can control business sustainability from all angles.

Sustainability 120

Sustainability Process Underperforming Technical Team Lean 120

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 2003 Governance 42

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Take control of your projects and programs today and start seeing the benefits of strategic project management. A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. What is a Project Management Office?

PMO 52

PMO Governance Government 2014 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

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For any closed loop control system ‒ let’s assume we want to manage our project with such a system ‒ has a signal representing the current state of the system. For your Honeywell or Nest controller on the wall, that sample rate is measured in seconds. Stochastic process control is the field of study. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

Closing 28

Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

"On spec" is open loop control on value. Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. Here are definitions from "Technical Measurement," INCOSE-TP-2005-020-10. Measures of Performance.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

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.

Governance 52

Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

What does done look like for quality control? Determination of physical percent complete is rooted in performance measurement, the comparison of actual performance against an integrated baseline plan consisting of integrated cost, schedule, and technical goals. What does done look like for the customer?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Performance Measurement Engineering Estimate 44

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.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

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

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? If both parties didn't have a status reporting process that was 0ne-half the distance between that time, they're going to lose control of the project.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review 2018 Engineering 41

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.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Governance Government 52

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Transparent – Comprehensible display of what needs to be done and how completion is measured. Controlled – Configuration-controlled, approved, and kept aligned to contract modifications. Controlled. For these reasons, the IMP should be a configuration controlled document. The IMP reflects the contracted work.

Planning 42

Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Understanding Risk Management in IT Risk management in IT involves the identification, assessment, and prioritization of IT-related risks, followed by the application of coordinated and economical controls to minimize and control the probability and impact of these risks.

Risk Management 36

Risk Management Risk Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 36

Herding Cats

MAY 12, 2018

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? The answer is, of course, it can and it is done every single day in many domains I work in.

Agile 44

Agile Finance Software Development Software Developers 44

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

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 44

Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. Technical Performance Measures.

Software Engineering 28

Software Engineering Performance Measurement Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. risks that may prevent the end item from performing as intended or not meeting performance expectations. Coonce, T.

Software Developers 34

Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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. With some details for each process area.

Estimate 81

Estimate Closing Controlling Defining 81

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. Analyzing trends that help focus on problem areas at the earliest point in time - when the variable under control starts misbehaving, intervention can be taken.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

- How much variance reduction needs to take place in the project attributes (risk, effectiveness, performance, cost, schedule - shown below) at what points in time, to increase the probability of project success? This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

We need to know the Upper Control Limits (UCL) and Lower Control Limit (LCL) of the ranges of all the variables that will impact the success of our project. With this paradigm we have logically connected project management processes with Control System processesIf the variances, created by uncertainty going outside the UCL and LCL.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Measure that is modeled in the Cone the variable is the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measure. Analyzing trends that help focus on problem areas at the earliest point in time - when the variable under control starts misbehaving, intervention can be taken.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. Change Control: The process of documenting, approving and rejecting changes to specific deliverables, deadlines, scope, and benchmarks for a project. Cost Performance Index (CPI): The ratio of Earned Value (EV) and Actual Cost of a project.

Underperforming Technical Team 60

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 60

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Project Managers constantly seek ways to eliminate or control risk, variance, and uncertainty. Attempting to control these variances outside their natural boundaries is a waste (Muda). Provide oversight, advice, guidance and control systems associated with Programmatic Risk management. Hope is Not a Strategy.

Risk Management 42

Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

The emphasis os Systems Management is on organizational skills, processes, and persistence Process definition and control are essential to effective, efficient, and consistent implementation. Without knowing what Done Looks Like, in units of Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance.

Software Developers 39

Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

We always want to minimize the number of interfaces between modules, minimize the complexity of each interface, and control the type of info flow. In general, modules tightly coupled if they use shared variables or if they exchange control info. Tight coupling if shared global data. Often cuts across functional lines.

Underperforming Technical Team 32

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 32

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. It includes the budgets assigned to scheduled control accounts and the applicable indirect budgets.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

We always want to minimize the number of interfaces between modules, minimize the complexity of each interface, and control the type of info flow. In general, modules tightly coupled if they use shared variables or if they exchange control info. Tight coupling if shared global data. Often cuts across functional lines.

Underperforming Technical Team 28

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

We invite you to join in today with questions and comments by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. The planning, the executing, the monitoring, controlling, and hopefully you’re getting it right and refining and improving until bam, closing. Welcome to Overview of the PMBOK Guide Seventh Edition Lesson Three.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59