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Mission Assurance

One of the critical success concepts in many domains is "mission assurance." A mission focused to planning is the starting point of this paradigm. This changes the planning process from making lists and checking them twice to defining the mission... Read more →

Risk Management Lessons Learned

There were some thoughts on the allocation - or not allocating - risk on a web forum. The "agile" approach was to share the risk amoung the team members. After responding to those postings that the allocation of risk is... Read more →

Probablistic Risk Analysis (more)

Just finished an article for Projects @ Work on integrating risk management into the planning process. The next step is to review the probabilistic risk analysis approach used to assess the schedule and cost risk profiles of the Master Schedule.... Read more →

Inhibitors to IT Success

I was reading through a pile of systems engineering presentations in prep for some meetings next week (final pass at Integrated Baseline Review and the inclusion of several dozen trade studies being introduced into the master schedule). The theme from... Read more →

Killing the False Gods of Project Management

Log ago I was sent a paper by Professor Christophe Bredillet of the University of Lille. I was not taken by the paper mainly because is was too wrapped up in the linear process thinking of the day - CMMI... Read more →

Augustine's Laws

I borrowed a book from the shelf of the Planning Manager on our program. Augustine's Laws, Norman R. Augustine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Martin Marietta Corporation, 1986, revised edition, Viking Press. I have several other "history" books about Martin... Read more →

Risk and Opportunity Management

There was discussion awhile back on New Grange about the risk and opportunity management. The conversation went around the topic of managing risk and managing opportunity using the same concepts. One approach is to look through guides to the topic... Read more →

Project Breathalyzer

In an earlier post the Project Breathalyzer was mentioned. It's time to revisit this concept for several reasons: There are discussions in the PM forums about project risk sharing. There is much confusion from the agile development community about the... Read more →

OODA

The current issues of Crosstalk has a nice article "Measure like a fighter pilot." Col. John R. Boyd developed the OODA Loop as a winning strategy for air combat. OODA stands for Observe Orient Decide Act The phrase getting inside... Read more →