Herding Cats

Alleged Misrepresentations

Pat Weaver points us to a piece about a law suite in Scotland between a Call Center and EDS. EDS was held liable for damages due to failure to deliver on the contract for a CRM system. There is an... Read more →

Fixing the Flaw in the IT Oversight Enhancement and Waste Prevention Act

A colleague - Paul Solomon - has kept us all informed about legislation working its way through Congress to improve the oversight of projects. The first round of improvements has been passed, but there is a flaw in the current... Read more →

Knowing What We're Talking About

In every domain there is a set of "code words" that everyone shares. I'm working on the training briefings (there are 3) for the Earned Value Management World 2010 Conference. One session is about Technical Performance Measures, and I'm using... Read more →

Quote of the Day

Skate to where the puck is headed, not to where it's been - Wayne Gretzky Forecasting future performance is the key to project management success, not reporting what happened last period. Earned Value alone cannot forecast the future. We need... Read more →

A Malformed Crticism of Power Point

There is a thread going around from the General McChrystal briefing that used a complex Mind Map showing the interdependencies of the activities taking in Afghanistan. Like most gut reactions to things, all the authors got it wrong in several... Read more →

Where Do Requirements Come From

Craig Brown is starting a series written by Nilesh Raje, titled "Who Decides the Project's Requirements?" This is an age old question in the development of software. Nilesh writes for Requirements Networking Group. Like Craig's Blog, RQNG is a must... Read more →