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PERT Analysis Revisited

I received an email notification this week of a new article on TechRepublic through the Blogger Tom Mochal titled "Use PERT technique for more accurate estimates." (To get at this article may require a login process). ow I know every... Read more →

More Statistics

The previous post mentioned several books that should be mandatory reading for anyone in the project success prediction business. I've acquired another book that is one of those "paradigm shifting" texts. Reasoning about Uncertainty, Joseph Y. Halpren, MIT Press, 2003.... Read more →

Project Failure Rates

On a recent forum discussion a poster mentioned the Standish Chaos report and the reduction of project failure rates. I've spoken to the Standish Report in the past. I mentioned in the forum the problems with the underlying statistics in... Read more →

Agile PM in Several Different Domains

The current issue of CIO Magazine arrived today with an article on Agile Project Management. A case study of Farm Credit and its adoption of Scrum. Some references to Standish statistics on project failures, a 2006 "State of Agile Development"... Read more →

Conditions for Waterfall

The concept of a Waterfall project management method is the current "whipping boy" for all things agile. Waterfall has it place, while probably not in instances. So here's some qualifiers for the application of Waterfall, from "Using Earned Value Management... Read more →