Leading Agile

APRIL 29, 2021

You will need to outline the estimated costs to be incurred as part of that transformation as well as the estimated annual benefits and savings expected to be realized from your transformation effort. . Return on Investment or ROI is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment. Payback Period.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But changes and contingencies can significantly affect the initial project timeline. . How can you be sure that the project timeline hasn’t (or has) significantly deviated from the initial schedule? Schedule Baseline as a Performance Baseline Component . That’s where schedule baseline comes into play. . Baselining.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

Initiating. Initiation is the very first phase of project management, and it is all about measuring the value, benefits, and feasibility of the project. The main tools used in initiation are the business case document and the benefits management plan. . Perform Integrated Change Control . Project closeout.

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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. NASA Cost Estimating Handbook.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Initiating: This process involves defining the project and obtaining authorization to begin work. Planning involves breaking down the work into manageable tasks, estimating resource requirements, and creating schedules and budgets. It helps project managers estimate project duration and identify critical tasks.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

89% of high-performing organizations value project management, 81% actively engage sponsors, 57% align projects with business strategy. [6]. 46% of organizations admit to not fully understanding the value of project management, even though that understanding boosts the success rate of strategic initiatives by 16%. [12]. Senior level.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Bottom-Up Estimating . Bottom-Up EAC (estimate at completion) Method .

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Bottom-Up Estimating . Bottom-Up EAC (estimate at completion) Method .

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Software Review Project Life Cycle Estimate Technical Review 40

Herding Cats

APRIL 30, 2019

A recent lawsuit by Hertz Rental Car against Accenture has turned into a rallying cry by Agilest and No Estimates advocates. Of course, No Root Cause analysis has been performed by these advocates, but it makes good click bait for their followers. What are the Measures of Performance for each Deliverable that implements a Capability.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

When the initial IMP is prepared after contract award, it is common to have the performance team in place. Some expansion of this initial list is expected as the wording of tasks and work packages in the IMS is considered. To prevent this mistake, collect all relevant documents before initiating an IMP. Initiated - begun.

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Wrike

AUGUST 30, 2021

Project initiation phase. In the initiation phase of the project, a PMIS can be helpful in: Establishing a preliminary project budget including cost and resource estimates. Enables easy comparison of actual project data with the baseline estimates from the project planning phase.

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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. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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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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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. Establishing productivity and performance measures for the team. HR professionals are leading the workplace revolution.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

TRL 2 occurs once the basic principles have been studied and practical applications can be applied to those initial findings. No Credible Decision Can Be Made in the Presence of Uncertainty with making Estimates of the Impact of those Decisions. When active research and design begin, a technology is elevated to TRL 3. And of course.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

” Eli Schragenheim The lesson is: when you ask for a clear one-number estimation, without defining the level of common and expected uncertainty, then you either might face big surprises or face frequent occurrences, where the project/mission finished exactly on time.

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It is important to note that while project management focuses on individual projects or initiatives, program management deals with groups of related projects managed together to meet objectives over a given period. Therefore, it's essential to have qualified managers in place when the program becomes more complex or large-scale.

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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. Improvement in estimating accuracy by a certain percentage or dollar value. Therefore, it will be necessary to benchmark the metrics use as part of performance measurement.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

” Eli Schragenheim The lesson is: when you ask for a clear one-number estimation, without defining the level of common and expected uncertainty, then you either might face big surprises or face frequent occurrences, where the project/mission finished exactly on time.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Wrike

MAY 24, 2021

There’s often a possibility that a reengineering initiative may impact their jobs or roles within the company. It may also be caused by estimating inadequate time to see the BPR initiative through. The initial problem was that their design, engineering, and research teams worked in silos.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Creating Value At the core of the system for value delivery lies the objective of creating tangible value for stakeholders through project initiatives; this involves identifying and prioritizing the outcomes, benefits, and deliverables that align with organizational goals, strategies, and stakeholder needs.

Governance 52

Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

The notion that a User Story would be Independent of all other User Stories makes no sense since the Integrated system is a tightly coupled set of concurrent processes starting with the initial request for Health Insurance ending with the issuance of a Health Insurance policy ranging for a commercial policy to Medicare. Difficult to reuse.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

In addition to that, as well as the PMI standards plus to lead the way for the immediate processes, the techniques when it comes to things like estimating or requirements management and things along those lines. So taking the knowledge areas and saying, here, initiating, here’s how you start. Then planning. The planning.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

The notion that a User Story would be Independent of all other User Stories makes no sense since the Integrated system is a tightly coupled set of concurrent processes starting with the initial request for Health Insurance ending with the issuance of a Health Insurance policy ranging for a commercial policy to Medicare. Difficult to reuse.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Engineering Risk Management 28

MindGenius

JUNE 26, 2019

PRINCE2, NVP, Analogous Estimating etc. Project Scope Creep Project Scope Creep is where the project experiences uncontrolled growth beyond the initial expectations of what is to be delivered. All three of these make up the performance measurement baseline. Project Management Terms for Team Leaders. You’re not alone!

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The business case estimates the projects costs and benefits. The completion date was moved out to incorporate the realistic estimates. Performance Measures Setting and tracking performance measures impacts net project success scores. As Peter Drucker said, What gets measured gets done.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Project Performance Management. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline - without a good foundation, nothing can be built. Risk Management (#RM).

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