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Schedule Delay Expert Witness
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-12):
I came across a series of sites this morning while searching for schedule delay modeling that provide schedule delay and analysis expert witness services. I knew there were expert witnesses in the medical malpractice area, since our next door neighbor...
Risk Profiles
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-02):
I've received a new tool today - @Risk for Project. This tool replaces the previous tool - Risk+ which comes with winSight - an Earned Value management database that collects EV data from a variety of sources, including Project Server....
Tools are one answer
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-11):
Jack Dahlgren talks about his aversion to tools and has mentioned in the past his aversion to project management tools. Our program would be dead on arrival without tools. Project management tools Project Server 2003 and its desktop power tool...
Software Development and Construction
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-21):
David Anderson has suggested through Jim Shore that software development and construction have NOTHING in common. As Jim states (and he states at the risk of him being rude) Software development is nothing like construction. Nothing!Nothing? No one single thing?...
Essesence of Project Management Part 2
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-21):
Ron Jeffries describes the essence of project management as...Then the essential question of the project's owners is When will this thing be done, with a side order of How are we doing and how do we know. The ideal answer...
Start with the end in mind
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-01-24):
The success of the Integrated Master Plan / Integrated Master Schedule (IMP/IMS) paradigm depends on several critical things. One is to start with the end in mind. Covey uses this term in his Seven Habits book, but it is too...
Deterministic versus Probabilistic Schedule
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-02):
There are two general types of schedules in the planning domain. Deterministic schedules - are networks of tasks connected to each other with dependencies that describe the work to be performed, that work's duration and the planned completion of the...
An Example of Probabilistic Risk Analyusis
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-01):
The past post on Thomsett's probability density functions brought up the point of what does a properly formed risk analysis picture look like? Here's one This diagram shows the increasing maturity of a Technical Performance Measure as the program progresses....
What can we learn from regulated environments?
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-13):
Just north of us is an Amgen manufacturing plant. There is an opening for a senior project management for their control systems projects. The job description outlines the usual technology background, work experience in the pharmaceutical environment and FDA regulatory...
What Software Development can Learn from other Domains
Abstract from Herding Cats (Indexed 2006-02-25):
There are recurrent claims that software is unique, it is not like any other engineering discipline, it has its own vocabulary, there is no connection between software development and management and other development and management domains. As Wolfgang Pauli was...
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