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Project Success Means Knowing ...

To increase the Probability of Project success we have to know something about the attributes and measures of the Five Immutable Principles that enable this success, while managing in the presence of uncertainty All engineering projects, including software projects, are... Read more →

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Simplicity is key, because it is tied up with being fundamental - Harvey Freidman Now the question really becomes - how simple is simple enough? When we hear some phrase like this, and we don't hear the units of measure... Read more →

Dunning-Kruger and Modern Software Project Management

In "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments," David Dunning and Justin Kruger state that the less skilled or competent you are, the more confident you are that you're actually very... Read more →

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“I am not much given to regret, so I puzzled over this one a while. Should have taken much more statistics in college, I think.” — Max Levchin, Paypal Co-founder, Slide Founder Perhaps anyone conjecturing that decisions can be made... Read more →

Fifty Great Project Management Blogs

On Line PM Course has listed the 50 Greatest Project Management Blogs in alphabetical order Read more →

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The real world is fraught with risk. Forecasting with empirical data - the #NoEstimates approach to estimating - ignores this fact. In the NE version of forecasting there is no place for uncertainty, which is why No Estimates advocates assert... Read more →

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People behave the way they are managed - A Wise old Navy Captain as told by LCMDR Nicholas Pisano Read more →

Decision Making On Software Development Projects

Decision Making on Software Development Projects Is Both Simple and Complex at the Same Time All projects operate in the presence of uncertainty. Real-world decision making is performed under uncertainty. Decision makers must make decisions which best incorporate these uncertainties.... Read more →

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Every systematic development of any subject ought to begin with a definition, so that everyone may understand what the discussion is about. Marcus Tullius Cicero (196BC ‒ 16BC), De Officiis, Book 1, Moral Goodness Related articles Architecture -Center ERP Systems... Read more →

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Prentice-Hall, 1981. The post below is from Steve McConnell's site and makes several things clear. But first, let's establish a framing... Read more →