Herding Cats

Statistical Project Management

A comment on Hal Macomber's site to the topic of "Deadlines," brings up the issue of using statistics in the assessment of project performance and forecasting. David Green in a post on Hal's site suggested Thucydides had the notion that... Read more →

PMI Community Post

Just got an email from PMI about their Europe, Middle East, Asia conference. With it was a ad for a "Quick Quiz" about Project Management Quick Quiz No matter how carefully I plan, my project reports often show the project... Read more →

Deliverables Based Planning

Way back in March was a post on Deliverables Based Planning. It's appropriate as a transition from the estimating discussion. Scrum has a very nice fit with (DBP), and the Earned Value process used to calculate BCWP, which is BCWS... Read more →

Estimating

Working on the final edits of a several hundred slide training course on Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline. The topic is interesting - to me anyway - since our world revolves around Earned Value and delivery of large enterprise class... Read more →

Book Update

I'm working my way through Catastrophe Disentanglement. The author has written other books on the same topic and is a consultant for the Boston Cutter Consortium. This book should be mandatory reading for any project manager. While chasing down references... Read more →

Risk Management

I get emails from TechRepublic on project management, mostly from Tom Mochal. Tom's submission are interesting most of the time. He's recent post was on Risk Management and making it easy. Two things struck me: The language used to describe... Read more →