The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. Project Closure Report A document summarizing the project’s overall performance, outcomes, and lessons learned. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. Project Governance It oversees project governance, ensuring that each aligns with the strategic goals. What is a Project Management Office?

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ProProfs Project Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It enables knowledge workers to do their jobs efficiently via tools such as spreadsheets, presentation software, bookkeeping tools, data processing tools, calculators, etc. . Remote teams, employees, and resources also need proper technological support for delivering the best performance. Is new technology hurting our productivity?

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Technical Review Software Review Monitoring Innovation 87

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 Government Governance 52

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? One day Presentations are usually not the criteria for spending double-digit millions on a software project. What were the selection criteria?

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Software Review Technical Review 2018 Engineering 41

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.

Government 52

Government Governance Technical Review Sustainability 52

Herding Cats

JULY 17, 2017

There are several partitions of this information that are common in building the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). This, of course, is nonsense, since estimates are about the past, present, and future. Several other government estimating organizations. The PMB is a time phased, budgeted description of the project.

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Estimate Logistics Performance Measurement Government 34

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Process Narratives may be used to facilitate contractor commitment to the use of crucial processes and procedures and provide the Government with an understanding of the proposed crucial processes and procedures prior to contract award. The contractor’s immediate customer may be a government organization or a prime contractor.

Planning 42

Planning Software Review Government Governance 42

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Estimates can be about the past, present, or future. 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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2003 Software Review 44

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The 2008 mortgage crisis for example (although many did an made lots of money), the government didn't. An important outcome of Macroeconomics is establishing the appropriate interest rates in an economy, where the government sets a base rate and banks work from there. Microeconomics is about individual or company behaviors.

Software Review 34

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Software Development 34

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Historical performance measured in Epicflow Conclusion While time buffers are valuable tools, their utility is severely compromised if capacity buffers are ignored. Too often, we see forecasts presented as a single number, creating an illusion of certainty that’s misleading.

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2016 Monitoring Risk Management Healthcare 52

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). Resources. [1]

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

I’ll hand the presentation over to you. Let me find out where I’m presenting from. Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted.

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Historical performance measured in Epicflow Conclusion While time buffers are valuable tools, their utility is severely compromised if capacity buffers are ignored. Too often, we see forecasts presented as a single number, creating an illusion of certainty that’s misleading.

2016 52

2016 Monitoring Healthcare Risk Management 52

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual Time Expended: The actual time spent on an activity from the Actual Start to the present date. Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. cost of work performed - ACWP) and estimated cost at completion (ETC). A project sponsor can request an audit.

Underperforming Technical Team 60

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Software Review 60

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.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement 2003 Government 42

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. Presentations and Briefings. Project Governance. Managment Processes.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Continuous performance assessment by measuring the right thing. Real-time” performance measurement as a natural artifact of agile processes. The means for reaching these results are presented first. Intense debate brings up all sides of an issue, even if it makes people uncomfortable.

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Process 2002 Underperforming Technical Team 2001 59