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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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Government Governance 52

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. Is it Eric?

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Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Engineering 59

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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Estimate Risk Management Risk SCRUM 46

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate.

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Leading Agile

APRIL 29, 2021

In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs.

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Finance Agile Performance Measurement Estimate 84

Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Schedule Baseline as a Performance Baseline Component . It’s a component of a performance measurement baseline that consists of scope, schedule, and cost baselines and is included into a project plan. This information can be used to improve project time estimates in the future. . Baselining.

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Software Review Estimate Monitoring Performance Measurement 93

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Project Performance Management. Project Driven Organization Framework.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

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. This, of course, is nonsense, since estimates are about the past, present, and future.

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Estimate Logistics Performance Measurement Government 34

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. The shortest time estimated to complete a specific project task or activity is known as optimistic duration. Performance Measurement Baseline. It is an estimation technique based on an expert consensus.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Technical Review 111

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. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. This is from one of our presentations from a International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association meeting on the same topic. I'd suggest the Principles for project success on non-trivial software efforts are universal.

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Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

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. Calculating Actual Cost is easy.

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Estimate Budget Infrastructure Performance Measurement 93

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. Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement 2003 Underperforming Technical Team 42

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 ). For your Honeywell or Nest controller on the wall, that sample rate is measured in seconds.

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Closing Estimate Controlling Process 28

NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether you’re overseeing a software development project or managing a construction project, understanding the key project management processes, techniques and strategies are essential for achieving success. “Projections indicate that the global project management software market is poised to reach $15.08

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Process 2030 Software Review Estimate 52

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The domain I work in is categorized as Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS). The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

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2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 31

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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Software Developers Software Development Risk Management Risk 34

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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Performance Measurement 2017 Technical Review 2008 35

Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The domain I work in is categorized as Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS). The development of the software and sometimes the development of the hardware is done in an agile manner, using one of several Agile development methods - SAFe, Scrum for example. Cost, Schedule, and these measures are tightly interconnected.

2001 28

2001 Software Estimate Performance Measurement 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.

Technical Review 35

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 35

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. MOP's are attributes that assure the systems to capability to perform.

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Performance Measurement Engineering Lean Estimate 49

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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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

MARCH 30, 2019

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. The customer is accountable for knowing what Done Looks Like (in Unity of measure meaningful to their domain).

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Software Developers Software Development Agile Software 39

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The original agile author's quote shows that systems engineering is missing from his development of software using Agile. In most of the software development, this notion is missing - hence the quote that What is divided from How. In Earned Value Management paradigm, progress is always measured as physical percent complete.

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Engineering Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 32

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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2007 2012 2006 2008 42

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A product manager, who works for a large aircraft manufacturing organization in the United States, follows a hybrid model of development and, with his team, releases a new version of aircraft handling software every couple of weeks. In EVM terminology, baseline is further defined as the performance measurement baseline (PMB).

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Performance Measurement PMI 59

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. Related articles.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

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. Were there: Measures of Effectiveness. Measures of Performance.

Software Review 41

Software Review Technical Review 2018 Engineering 41

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

I come to this systems domain from the Software Intensive System of Systems paradigm. When I hear about complex software systems and how difficult they are, and how undesirable they are, and all the other urban legends about complexity, complex, complicated and chaos, I get a smile. Technical Performance Measures.

Engineering 28

Engineering Software Finance Manufacturing 28

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. Let's look at one example.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For software projects, Scrum can be used. The only answer to that is a measure of Physical Percent Complete (P%C). P%C starts with defining the Measures of Performance and Technical Performance Measures for each deliverable as a function of time. What is your actual condition? . Resources .

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2010 Government Governance Performance Measurement 39

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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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Software Review 60

Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2017

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) Do they characterize the major drivers of performance? Related articles.

Software Review 28

Software Review Technical Review Performance Measurement Estimate 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

Two Books in the Spectrum of Software Development. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. There, now we've got Principles, Processes, and Practices all connected. Related articles. We've Been Doing This for 20 Years. Applying the Right Ideas to the Wrong Problem. Managing in Presence of Uncertainty.

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Process Engineering Estimate Software Developers 53

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). There can be cost and schedule performance measures as well.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2017

The test of the hypothesis for projects are the Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, Key Performance Parameters, and techTechnicalformance Measures used to assess progress to plan for the project. Estimating how much is the starting point. Estimating is part of risk management.

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Estimate Risk Management Risk Engineering 39