An error of commission is unfortunate
An error of ommission is unforgivable
Nicholas Pisano, Navy Commander - Retired, US Navy
Nick is the President of Safran North America. I'm a member of the Safran team working a US Army BioPhrama program getting ready for ANSI-748-B system validation of the Program Control system. This includes all the cost, schedule, budgets, deliverables, risk handling strategies, activities traced to the SOW, CDRLs (Contract Data Requirements List), and all performance measurement information.
If these artifacts are in error, they can be corrected. If they are missing, the credibility of the program is suspect. This seperation of the techncial artifacts from the programmatic artifacts is a critical success factor for all non-trivial projects, for the simple reason:
Measures of physical percent complete come from assessing the tangible evidence of progress compared to the planned progress. This is the basis of all agile software development. In Scrum the planned deliverables from the iteration compared to the actuall - working - deliverables is a measure of progress.
It is also the basis of Earned Value Management as defined in ANSI-748-B
But since Agile provides no means to capture and measure cost, andEarned Value does, we need to couple Agile with Earned Value to form a match made in heaven.
