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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Ingroup bias - a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members. What are the measures of physical percent complete needed to inform the decision makers of progress to plan in order to take corrective or preventive actions to stay on plan? A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras,

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

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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.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Ingroup bias - a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members. What are the measures of physical percent complete needed to inform the decision makers of progress to plan in order to take corrective or preventive actions to stay on plan? A final Thought . Palacios, Cristina Casado?Lumbreras,

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is usually a cost, a completion date, a performance measure used in a closed loop control system to keep the project GREEN while delivering the needed Capabilities to produce the Value for the customer at the needed time for the needed cost.

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INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

It can be used to identify appropriate teams, work groups, and a sequence of how the tasks can be arranged. This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project.

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INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

It can be used to identify appropriate teams, work groups, and a sequence of how the tasks can be arranged. This always takes us back the coupling and cohesion discussion all of us who were Software Engineers in the 1980's . There is no way out of this for any non-trivial software development project.