Tag: TruePlanning

What Does That Button Do? A Discussion on Product Manufacturing and Learning Curves

Let’s talk TruePlanning, and focus on a set of inputs that directly impact a specific activity: Production Manufacturing. This activity will be very important for acquisition programs as it typically represents the highest cost along with non-recurring engineering.

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From Grand to Granular, Estimating Agile Project Costs in TruePlanning

In the federal government, budgets require a multi-year planning cycle. Therefore, any effort to reduce the uncertainty of future year program costs leads to better and more defensible budgets for those years. But Agile programs focus on near term workload and activities with only limited future planning cycles identified. Future cycles are only activated as their start date nears. So any model-based cost estimate or predictive analysis for the budget needs to be flexible, responsive and adaptive to the daily dynamics of Agile program planning and execution.

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