ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Arguably one of the single most important aspects to any well-planned project, your schedule dictates which tasks need to be done when, and which resources will be allocated to complete those deliverables. But as they say, even the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. You can import MS Project plans, too.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For a successful project, you need an overall picture of your work performance information (WPI). Performance reporting provides that information by putting performance measurement, quality assurance and accountability data in context. Use a performance report to compare the actual project to the plan.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Instead, it refers to the need for forecasting, planning and sizing. It's a common technique that is useful for forecasting, planning and sizing. Example 1 : Sprint Planning. A typical format for Sprint Planning might look like this: The Product Owner brings an ordered Product Backlog to Sprint Planning.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

What these programs do is help project managers to plan, execute and close their project. Schedule and Planning: Computes early and late schedule, slack times and the critical path. Budget: Associate cost with individual tasks for more accurate budget estimation and generation.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The third article will address failures and breakdowns in planning, process, collaboration, and alignment within the Scrum framework. ? Misaligning planning, execution, or reporting of capacity and goals, pointing to an inability to gauge capacity accurately. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Chapter 5 covers the agile project management model and then the rest of the book covers the process and project lifecycle in detail, with chapters on governance, scaling and performance measurement. It talks about measuring and monitoring velocity during an iteration too. Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello, and welcome to part one of MPUGs Project Performance Measurement course.

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Herding Cats

MAY 16, 2019

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. Measuring progress must be in units meaningful to the decision maker. For the planned cost?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baseline An original plan for measuring performance and tracking changes. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g., identify items such as benefits and costs).

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: And welcome to Part 2 of MPUG’s Project Performance Measurement course. million.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. Performance Measurement Baseline.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Capabilities Based Planning. Capabilities Based Planning (V2). Deliverables Based Planning. 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. Project Performance Management.

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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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Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

I work in a domain where estimates are made every single week. Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC), Estimated Completion Date (ECD) are the life blood of our software intensive system of systems programs. In Agile the Product Roadmap and Release Plan are the basis of the PMB.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. When might we finish with the planned work?

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Schedule Baseline as a Performance Baseline Component . A schedule baseline, aka baseline schedule, is a copy of a planned project schedule approved by stakeholders. It’s a component of a performance measurement baseline that consists of scope, schedule, and cost baselines and is included into a project plan.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

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. . Once the project is approved in the initiation phase, the next thing to do is planning.

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Workamajig

JUNE 11, 2019

A robust PM system might tell you how a project is doing at any moment, but it can’t tell you how the organization or its constituent people are performing. Measuring and monitoring project management metrics fills this gap. The tools you’re using to measure the metric must have a low error rate. Planned Value.

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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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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). This starts with a Plan to deliver those Capabilities.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Much has been written about the sources of risk and how to Manage in the Presence of Uncertainty (This briefing describes how risk is managed for each element of the Integrated Master Plan). . What About the Plan to Manage in the Presence of Uncertainty . Plans are Strategies. A Strategy is a Hypothesis.

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Herding Cats

MAY 1, 2017

Performance–Based Project Management ® integrates five critical program management process areas with – Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Measures. The inclusion of Technical Performance Measures (TPM) separates this approach from conventional methods based solely on managing cost and schedule.

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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 ). The response to change rate ‒ how fast can you make corrective actions to the system to keep it on plan.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Project management is a multifaceted discipline that combines techniques, processes, and strategies to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects effectively. Planning: In this process, project managers develop a comprehensive project plan that outlines the scope, schedule, budget, resources, and risks associated with the project.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2017

Measures of Performance (MOP) – characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. These measures are attributes that assure the system has the capability and capacity to perform.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. These activities, their releationships and values are defined in a PLAN for increasing the probability of success for the project. The creation and management of the Plan is usually performed by the Program Planning and Controls group where I work. .

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

The goal of every program manager is to have a set of practices that connect all the programmatic planning, risk, and performance information in a single unified view needed to support the decisions that increase the probability of success of any project or program. The shift lay in the determination of physical percent complete.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In EVM terminology, baseline is further defined as the performance measurement baseline (PMB). Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). The budget, of course, will be in terms of money, and the work planned and work performed or executed, will also be in terms of money in this case. You may be wondering why.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 29, 2017

To make some conjecture that some process will fix the problem - Estimates are the smell of dysfunction and NOT Estimating will fix that dysfunction - is naive at best and willfully ignorant of Root Cause Analysis at worse. Any successful technical communication needs to have: Measures of Effectiveness. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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. Along with the Technical Performance Measures are three other measures needed to assess progress to plan and production of Value.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. It can be the needed performance of a measure - Effectiveness, Performance, Key Performance Parameter, or a Technical Performance Measures.

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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. Hertz spent months planning the project. What did these plans look like?

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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. is a Fallacy.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Measure of Performance - characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specific conditions. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform. Capabilities Based Planning First Then Requirements. MOP's belong to the project.

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The answer is a Capabilities Based Plan stating what capabilities the stakeholders of the project need to accomplish their mission. In our space and defense domain, we have an increasing maturity of the deliverables captures in the Integrated Master Plan. The only answer to that is a measure of Physical Percent Complete (P%C).

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