The Project Management Manifesto for America is the starting point for improving the project management of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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During a discussion – of sorts – with Mary Poppendieck about Chapter 2 of her upcoming book, I suggested several ideas needed clarification regarding the use of "Waterfall" in modern project management. Mary forwarded a paper – an opinion piece...
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Project accounting is many times confused with project management.The Project Manager is most interested in Schedule. Project accounting is interested in Cost. The critical success factor here is the derive the project costs from the project schedule. Most often we...
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Here's the essential elements of Program Planning: The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) are integrated to show who is accountable for what deliverables. Schedule and Cost are integrated for the same periods of performance. It's not...
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The Red herring of Waterfall has risen again as the favorite stalking horse for agilest when trying to find some way to sell their approach. There are several issues with this tactic, not the least of which is Waterfall as...
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Jason Yip has a nice post describing the status expected from an Agile project. From the point of view of an agile iteration these are: Is the project going to succeed in terms of achieving scope goals within time goals?...
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The "red herring" of waterfall is rising again. The proponents of agile use waterfall as the whipping boy (or girl) for what's wrong with software development processes. What is completely lost here is: It's not the serial process that is...
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Here's the essential elements of the organizing processes for a project: Are all the authorized work elements of the project defined? Who gets to say what the project is doing? This is sorted out in the project chartering session. Chartering...
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There are several posts out in the last week describing planning and scheduling methods. Some are useful, some are repeats of the obvious, a couple are simply wrong and one is nonsense. Some are based on PMI's PMBOK (which by...
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The notion that there are simple project management processes is just that "notional." There are straight forward processes. There are important and less important processes. There are processes more complex than others. But "simple" usually means simple results, simple understanding,...
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The urban myth going around the office is that an egg can be stood on its end two times a year, at the equinox. The equinox of course is when there is equal light and dark and as nothing to...
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The Department of Defense Earned Value Management Implementation Guide, October 2006 says: 1.1 Concepts of Earned Value Management. Earned Value Management (EVM) is a program management tools that integrates the technical, cost, and schedule parameters of a contract. During the...
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I was poking around for an EV document I had misplaced and came across a 2008 article by Scott Abler in Doctor Dobb's Journal. Scott is a thought leader in many areas of software development. I used his "process" books...
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