Herding Cats

Strategy for Jobs

I rarely post about current events, not because I'm not interested, not because I don't have an opinion, but because this blog is about project management - the techncial side of project management. I got an email this week from... Read more →

Defense Industry Reform

This is where DoD is headed with Acquisition reform. Click on the first to read the entire memo. Some advice is applicable to commerical enterprise projects as well. Read more →

Brasington's Laws - From the Mouth of Bil Brasington

When I poseted Branisgton's Laws awhile back, I do know who Brasington is, just saw a few of his laws in another list. I got an email from "Bil" Brasington: I added Brasington's Laws to a list of additions and... Read more →

The Notion The Lean and Agile Belong to Agilest?

Check out Lessons Learned in Building the Ares Projects on page 9 (lower right corner of the slide section). Notice the sticky note, hand drawn connections, crossed out connections, etc. This apprach is used EVERYWHERE in the domain we work... Read more →

Quote of the Day

“When a program agrees to spend less money or accelerate a schedule beyond what the engineers and program managers think is reasonable, a small amount of overall risk is added. These little pieces of risk add up until managers are... Read more →

Minimum Concepts for Earned Value Management

Over the years, I've been involved in a broad range of discussions, implementations, surveillance's, and deployments of Earned Value. In my heart of hearts I'm an "earned value guy." There are just as many misunderstandings about earned value as there... Read more →