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Indicators of project performance provide us with "Steering Inputs" 26 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
In order to take corrective action for our project, to keep it on schedule, on budget, and producing the expected outcomes (more or less within out variance bounds) we need indicators of performance. ...
Earning Value from Earned Value 25 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
There's a post on a Deltek reseller site about applying Earned Value. It has some good advice, but the premise of the starting point needs to be addressed. Before going on to suggest things to do on ...
Project Success? 24 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
The discussion of estimating, managing, risk handling, and performance measurement are all focused on Increasing the Probability of Project Success. But what is project success and how can it be asses...
How To Estimate Almost Any Software Deliverable 23 Aug 2013 | 06:59 pm
There is a popular notion out there that estimating software projects is not possible with any level of confidence. This is popular for several reasons - all of which are due to Dilbert style manageme...
Estimating Cost, Schedule, and Technical Peformance 22 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
When asked to make estimates of future cost, schedule, and technical performance many wince. Many refuse saying we don't make no stink'in estimates here. Well there's a few problems with that approach...
A Common Myth in Software Development 21 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
There is a common myth in the development of software starting with the developers paradigm. This approach is missing a critical role not found in many IT or business softwware domains, that is foun....
Management is a Control System 19 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
With all the discussion about estimating, controlling, and sometimes even managing project it may be useful to have a paradigm of managing anything. One paradigm is the Control System. In some places ...
A Fundamental Principle of Writing Software for Money 18 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
When there is a sunk cost of any development, be it software, hardware, concrete, a gene-editing anti-virus drug - the value of the resulting product or service is directly related to that sunk cost. ...
New Book On Its Way 17 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Coming soon Performance-Based Project Management. The Principles, Practices, and Process of project success described with working examples in 256 pages. This is the full length version of Principles...
Reference Class Forecasting for Software Estimating 16 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
When it is conjectured You can't do estimates on software projects stop for a second and think about that concept? Really, "you have no idea what so ever about how long this will take and how much it...
