The document summarizes a workshop on building a Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB). The workshop will cover the six steps needed to establish a PMB, including: 1) building a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), 2) defining Work Packages, 3) arranging Work Packages in a logical sequence, 4) assigning resources to Work Packages, and 5) turning this information into a credible PMB. Participants will practice these steps by defining the PMB for a home toaster. The goal is for attendees to understand how to apply the process on their own projects.
Delivering programs with less capability than promised, while exceeding the cost and planned durations, distorts decision making, contributes to increasing cost growth to other programs, undermines the Federal government’s credibility with taxpayers and contributes to the public’s negative support for these programs.
Many reasons have been hypothesized and documented for cost and schedule growth. The authors review some of these reasons, and propose that government and contractors use the historical variability of the past programs to establish cost and schedule estimates at the outset and periodically update these estimates with up-to-date risks, to increase the probability of program success. For this to happen, the authors recommend changes to estimating, acquisition and contracting processes.
Delivering programs with less capability than promised, while exceeding the cost and planned durations, distorts decision making, contributes to increasing cost growth to other programs, undermines the Federal government’s credibility with taxpayers and contributes to the public’s negative support for these programs.
Many reasons have been hypothesized and documented for cost and schedule growth. The authors review some of these reasons, and propose that government and contractors use the historical variability of the past programs to establish cost and schedule estimates at the outset and periodically update these estimates with up-to-date risks, to increase the probability of program success. For this to happen, the authors recommend changes to estimating, acquisition and contracting processes.
Una pequeña reflexión sobre diferentes maneras de evitar que los perros manchen la calle con sus necesidades. Nos encontramos desde avisos procedentes de las autoridades, tanto apelando a la ley como premiando actitudes positivas, hasta carteles hechos por particulares.
When we hear that a proposed process, tool, method or any ideas is all about "risk management," check to see if it covers these areas. If not, the suggestion is not really about risk management.
The Impedance Mismatch in Integrated Engineering Design Systems is an issue in the Integration of commercial off the shelf (COTS) components.
This issue is a member of the Impedance Mismatch
problems found when commercial off the shelf
components are assembled into systems.
This mismatch occurs when event, control sequence,
or data semantics of two or more participating application
domains are mismatched.
During the system integration process the impedance
mismatch must be addressed through some means,
either through an integration layer which hides the
mismatch or through an integrating service, such as
CORBA, which facilitates the impedance adaptation
between the applications.
The use of an architecture–centered development process for delivering information technology began with the introduction of client / server based systems. Early client/server and legacy mainframe applications did not provide the architectural flexibility needed to meet the changing business requirements of the modern manufacturing organization. With the introduction of Object Oriented systems, the need for an architecture–centered process became a critical success factor. Object reuse, layered system components, data abstraction,
web based user interfaces, CORBA, and rapid development and deployment processes all provide economic
incentives for object technologies. However, adopting the latest object oriented technology, without an adequate understanding of how this technology fits a specific architecture, risks the creation of an instant legacy
system.
We have lots data. Let’s use it create more credible estimates to help tame the growth beast. In spite the estimating community’s efforts to provide credible estimates, government programs still seem to deliver less than promised, cost more than planned, and take longer than needed. When estimates are consistently biased low:
- Decisions of choice are distorted
- Cost growth causes more growth as programs are stretched out to fund portfolios with fixed budgets
- Taxpayers become more cynical and negative about government
- The estimating community’s credibility is seriously questioned
Avoid software project horror stories - check the reality value of the estima...Harold van Heeringen
Many large software projects turn into software horror stories, resulting in newspaper headlines and even political issues. Often, the project costs and schedule were estimated unrealistically optimistic, using immature estimation techniques. A relatively simple way to avoid many problems is to perform a reality check on the estimate. This presentation was given on the conference of the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association (ICEAA2014), June 2014 (Denver, USA)
Slides as given for the Feb. 12, 2014 talk at Bay Area Software Testers.
(btw, I failed to give credit for the "Stand Back!" t-shirt image, it was from the XKCD T-shirt here: http://store-xkcd-com.myshopify.com/products/try-science)
Also forgot reference to the paper on Fibonacci numbers in planning poker affecting estimates: http://simula.no/publications/Simula.simula.1282/simula_pdf_file
PM Chapter on Agile IT Project Management MethodsGlen Alleman
The nations prosperity depends of information technology (IT) software. The nation’s IT software industry depends on the timely delivery of high quality products to eager customers. This industry is slipping further behind in quality and timely delivery every year. The gap continues to grow.
4 patterns in project management that can have bitter consequences. I share a bit of my experience with tricks I use to see trouble coming, commonly referred to as anti-patterns. Nothing revolutionary but definitely not the same list you'll find on wikipedia.
search.com or Google: Why we suck at naming products and companies (PCA13)Roger Cauvin
Winner of "Best Session" at ProductCamp Austin 13 (August 2, 2014).
For full presentation with speaker notes, please see the Google slides published here:
http://bit.ly/1mlWFEk
Once there, hover over the bottom left of the page, click the sprocket, and select 'Open speaker notes'.
Did you know that scientists have studied what makes a great brand name? The findings may surprise you. Our intuitions about brand names are the opposite of what the science tells us.
The session answered:
1. What goals should you strive to achieve when choosing a name for your product or company?
2. What does the science say about what types of names best accomplish these goals?
3. How should you choose a name?
Prepare to challenge your intuitions.
Improving DOE Project Performance Using the DOD Integrated Master PlanGlen Alleman
DOE O 413 measures a project’s progress to plan by the consumption of funding, the passage of time, and the meeting of milestones. In March of 2003, then Under Secretary, Energy, Science, Card received a memo directing the implementation of Project Management and the Project Management Manual, including the Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule. This directive states “the integrated master plan and schedule tie together all project tasks by showing their logical relationships and any constraints controlling the start or finish of each task. This process results in a hierarchy of related functional and layered schedules derived from the Work Breakdown Structure that can be used for monitoring and controlling project progress.” This paper shows how restoring the IMP/IMS paradigm to DOE program management increases the probability of program success in ways not currently available using DOD O 413 processes alone.
Una pequeña reflexión sobre diferentes maneras de evitar que los perros manchen la calle con sus necesidades. Nos encontramos desde avisos procedentes de las autoridades, tanto apelando a la ley como premiando actitudes positivas, hasta carteles hechos por particulares.
When we hear that a proposed process, tool, method or any ideas is all about "risk management," check to see if it covers these areas. If not, the suggestion is not really about risk management.
The Impedance Mismatch in Integrated Engineering Design Systems is an issue in the Integration of commercial off the shelf (COTS) components.
This issue is a member of the Impedance Mismatch
problems found when commercial off the shelf
components are assembled into systems.
This mismatch occurs when event, control sequence,
or data semantics of two or more participating application
domains are mismatched.
During the system integration process the impedance
mismatch must be addressed through some means,
either through an integration layer which hides the
mismatch or through an integrating service, such as
CORBA, which facilitates the impedance adaptation
between the applications.
The use of an architecture–centered development process for delivering information technology began with the introduction of client / server based systems. Early client/server and legacy mainframe applications did not provide the architectural flexibility needed to meet the changing business requirements of the modern manufacturing organization. With the introduction of Object Oriented systems, the need for an architecture–centered process became a critical success factor. Object reuse, layered system components, data abstraction,
web based user interfaces, CORBA, and rapid development and deployment processes all provide economic
incentives for object technologies. However, adopting the latest object oriented technology, without an adequate understanding of how this technology fits a specific architecture, risks the creation of an instant legacy
system.
We have lots data. Let’s use it create more credible estimates to help tame the growth beast. In spite the estimating community’s efforts to provide credible estimates, government programs still seem to deliver less than promised, cost more than planned, and take longer than needed. When estimates are consistently biased low:
- Decisions of choice are distorted
- Cost growth causes more growth as programs are stretched out to fund portfolios with fixed budgets
- Taxpayers become more cynical and negative about government
- The estimating community’s credibility is seriously questioned
Avoid software project horror stories - check the reality value of the estima...Harold van Heeringen
Many large software projects turn into software horror stories, resulting in newspaper headlines and even political issues. Often, the project costs and schedule were estimated unrealistically optimistic, using immature estimation techniques. A relatively simple way to avoid many problems is to perform a reality check on the estimate. This presentation was given on the conference of the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association (ICEAA2014), June 2014 (Denver, USA)
Slides as given for the Feb. 12, 2014 talk at Bay Area Software Testers.
(btw, I failed to give credit for the "Stand Back!" t-shirt image, it was from the XKCD T-shirt here: http://store-xkcd-com.myshopify.com/products/try-science)
Also forgot reference to the paper on Fibonacci numbers in planning poker affecting estimates: http://simula.no/publications/Simula.simula.1282/simula_pdf_file
PM Chapter on Agile IT Project Management MethodsGlen Alleman
The nations prosperity depends of information technology (IT) software. The nation’s IT software industry depends on the timely delivery of high quality products to eager customers. This industry is slipping further behind in quality and timely delivery every year. The gap continues to grow.
4 patterns in project management that can have bitter consequences. I share a bit of my experience with tricks I use to see trouble coming, commonly referred to as anti-patterns. Nothing revolutionary but definitely not the same list you'll find on wikipedia.
search.com or Google: Why we suck at naming products and companies (PCA13)Roger Cauvin
Winner of "Best Session" at ProductCamp Austin 13 (August 2, 2014).
For full presentation with speaker notes, please see the Google slides published here:
http://bit.ly/1mlWFEk
Once there, hover over the bottom left of the page, click the sprocket, and select 'Open speaker notes'.
Did you know that scientists have studied what makes a great brand name? The findings may surprise you. Our intuitions about brand names are the opposite of what the science tells us.
The session answered:
1. What goals should you strive to achieve when choosing a name for your product or company?
2. What does the science say about what types of names best accomplish these goals?
3. How should you choose a name?
Prepare to challenge your intuitions.
Improving DOE Project Performance Using the DOD Integrated Master PlanGlen Alleman
DOE O 413 measures a project’s progress to plan by the consumption of funding, the passage of time, and the meeting of milestones. In March of 2003, then Under Secretary, Energy, Science, Card received a memo directing the implementation of Project Management and the Project Management Manual, including the Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule. This directive states “the integrated master plan and schedule tie together all project tasks by showing their logical relationships and any constraints controlling the start or finish of each task. This process results in a hierarchy of related functional and layered schedules derived from the Work Breakdown Structure that can be used for monitoring and controlling project progress.” This paper shows how restoring the IMP/IMS paradigm to DOE program management increases the probability of program success in ways not currently available using DOD O 413 processes alone.
“Learn about the 4 Key Steps to Application Modernization from Solutions Director Derek Britton along with our customer Jeroen van der Heijden, Chief Technical Officer at Raet. This presentation took place at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Barcelona on 7th November 2012.”
“Learn about the 4 Key Steps to Application Modernization from Solutions Director Derek Britton and from our customer Glenn Myers, Chief Information Officer at the Insurance Commission of Western Australia. This presentation took place at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Gold Coast, Australia on 13th November 2012.”
Practicing Scrum with Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 - TechEd Middle East 2...Jose Luis Soria
Scrum is maybe the most exciting thing that has happened to the software development world over the last years. Its empirical approach, strikingly changes the way people face projects, and shifts the focus into improving upon development practices, while continuously delivering valuable software increments. Combined with the proper tools and practices, teams can dramatically improve their performance and fulfill customer expectations. This session makes a tour around the Scrum framework, showing how Scrum Teams work in practice, and going into details about how Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server can support and facilitate a great amount of the activities carried out by these teams in their quest for delivering value.
Enterprise Product Set Introductory customer presentation. An introduction to the new Micro Focus Enterprise product set, released 2012, taken from the webinar of the same name, August 2012. For more information see www.microfocus.com
How To Build A Credible Performance Measurement Baselineguest9da059
IPM 2009 Conference briefing. The Performance Measurement Baseline is the project controls vehicle that connects Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance in a single database.
How To Build A Credible Performance Measurement BaselineGlen Alleman
IPM 2009 presentation. The Performance Measurement Baseline is the collection of the Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Measures for the program - used to make management decisions.
Project Success: The Basis of the Five Immutable PrinciplesGlen Alleman
Some people in the field talk about the “basic tenets” of project management. Where do these come from? Some say they come from hands-on experience, anecdotal “best practices,” and the good old “school of hard knocks.”
Published in The Public Manager, Vol. 43, No. 3, Fall 2014
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Increasing the Probability of Project SuccessGlen Alleman
Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key cost, performance and schedule attributes are often uncertain or unknown until late in the program.
Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which may potentially impact the program, termed Known Unknowns, can be alleviated with good risk management. -- Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Page 1, Edmund Conrow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003
Cost and schedule growth for complex projects is created when unrealistic technical performance expectations, unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, inadequate risk assessments, unanticipated technical issues, and poorly performed and ineffective risk management, contribute to project technical and programmatic shortfalls
From Principles to Strategies for Systems EngineeringGlen Alleman
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Building a Credible Performance Measurement BaselineGlen Alleman
Establishing a credible Performance Measurement Baseline, with a risk adjusted Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, starts with the WBS and connects Technical Measures of progress to Earned Value
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Only when capabilities are defined can we start with requirements elicitation
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Speakers:
Bob Boule
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
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8. Before we start with the Performance
Measurement Baseline development,
let’s talk a bit about the predecessor
activities we saw on Page 4.
Capabilities are not that well known
outside government and large
construction projects.
But they are a critical success factor of
any project. In the IT world a simple
example of a capability would be the
“process invoices from our top tier
suppliers.”
How do we do this – we don’t know.
But we need to posses this capability
to have some business benefit.
General Patton stated the capability
he needed.
We need to state the technical and
business capabilities needed that result
from the project.
We need to have these capabilities
made public.
They need to be the backbone of
WHY we are doing this project.
When things start heading for the ditch
– and they will – the stated
capabilities bring us back to reality.
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34. Here’s a picture of “real” Work
Packages being arranged by “real”
Work Package managers, on a “real”
project.
This is a simple process. Brown paper,
sticky notes, hand written Work
Package descriptions.
This process is called Product
Development Kaizen.
The critical idea is to have collective
ownership of the arrangement of the
Work Packages, while having single
accountability of the contents of each
Work Package by the Work Package
Manager.
Arranging the Work Packages is a full
contact sport.
When complete, leave the sticky notes
on the wall for all to see.
You will move these into a project
scheduling tool of course, but even then
you should have a “plot” of these
Work Packages.
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