In the morning paper (Longmont Times Call, a true home town paper), had a story about the US Census Office and their quest for an electronic census taking process. The initial budget was $11B - that billion with a B. Now $2B over budget to the 2010 baseline. An interesting quote:
"What we're facing is a statistical Katrina on the part of the administration," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
Using 600,000 temporary workers to survey all those not mailing in their census forms, depends on a portal computer to capture the "door to door" information. The computers turned out to be too complex
"This is a management problem. It's an organizational problem," Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said in testimony this month before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
Management problem, organizational problem? Yes. A Project Management problem.
- Requirements management
- Subcontract management
- Deliverables management
- Risk management
- Scope management
- Performance management
All the management verbs found in PMBOK.
So we're back to the core question - yet to be answered - to anyone proposing an alternative to PMBOK and the Process Groups and Knowledge Areas contained therein.
What Process Groups and Knowledge Areas of PMBOK would NOT be applicable to the management of a project? And if not, what are the replacements?
