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Business Analysis Body of Knowledge

If you'd like to see an example of how a Body of Knowledge can be build for a specific domain that includes planning look at Business Analysis Body of Knowledge and scroll down to Page 100 for the planning section.... Read more →

Assumption Based Planning

Just finished Assumption Based Planning: A Tool for Reducing Avoidable Surprises, James A. Dewer, Cambridge University Press, 2002. In it was a powerful statement regarding planning and the difference between planning and scheduling A plan is a tentative solution to... Read more →

Large Projects and Complexity

Jack points us to a post about the slippage of Windows Vista and some possible root causes. These include: Too many interfaces Too many cooks and their spoilage of the soup Optimistic and probably unrealistic schedules But there probably many... Read more →

Big Dig Project Update

Big Dig Project update provides some sources of the current woes of the Big Dig. BTW Scott Sehlhorst provides some of the best Blog materials in the general software and project management domain around. Read more →

Waterfall and Agile (again)

Mishkin Berteig suggests that the differences between agile and waterfall are similar to the differences between a bank loan and a Visa cash advance. The trouble with this analogy is one loan is secured and one loan is unsecured. The... Read more →

My Summer Vacation

Remember that writing assignment in the 6th grade - "what I did on my summer vacation." Our two teenagers, their mother and I went to France and the UK. Not that that has anything what so every to do with... Read more →

Change of Venue

I've moved from one consulting firm to another. My tenure as a Program Architect completed with the submission and transition to Phase I of a major spacecraft procurement initiative. This experience was a wonderful opportunity to expand my experience in... Read more →