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The Lean Aerospace Initiative and the Lean Aerospace Initiative Consortium define processes applicable in many domains for applying lean. At first glance there is no natural connection between Lean and System Engineering. The ideas below are from a paper Igave... Read more →
Decision making in the presence of uncertainty is a normal business function as well as a normal technical development process. The world is full of uncertainty. Those seeking certainty will be woefully disappointed. Those conjecturing that decisions can't be made... Read more →
WARNING RANT AGAINST INTENTIONAL IGNORANCE FOLLOWS This is one of those pictures tossed out at some conference that drives me crazy. It's uninformed, ignores the disciplines of developing software for money, and is meant to show how smart someone is,... Read more →
Most problems are self imposed and usually can be traced to lack of discipline. The foremost attribute of successful programs is discipline: Discipline to evolve and proclaim realistic cost goals; discipline to forego appealing but nonessential features; discipline to minimize... Read more →
On my way to a client in Toronto, the logo advertisment for CIBC said... The future emerges And since that future is rarely known in advance, the notion of Value in the future and the cost of producing that value... Read more →
The notion that projects are somehow no longer needed fails to address how to replace the processes, governance, and stewardship of a business's assets while producing the needed value from those expenditures. Here's a framework for management a firms funds... Read more →
Unless you're building sofwtare as a hobby, someone is paying you to do that work. Those paying aren't likley doing it as a hobby either. They have some expectation of getting their money back sometime in the future. Somewhere in... Read more →
We're preparing for a Webinar on 25 September 2014, now titled Using Techncial Performance to Inform Earned Value, which addresses the disconnect in EAI-748-C between two statement Page 2, 5 bullet - Objectively assess accomplishments at the work performance level.... Read more →
There is a popular notion that Projects are some how not needed to develop software. Just fund the Team and the business outcomes needed to fulfill a strategy and deliver value to the balance sheet will appear. This may work... Read more →
A new Book The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices of Successful Systems and Software, is now out. From another source The right principles trump practices everytime - Dean Leffingwell. This notion that practices and processes can be put... Read more →
The term statistical significance is critical to most every discussion about spending other peoples money with some new and innovative process. When we here I know a CEO that uses my approach, we need to ask several critical questions both... Read more →
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through... Read more →
With all the speculation on what went wrong with the ACA site and all the agile pundits making statements about how agile could have saved the site, here's some actual facts beyond all the opinions - that Daniel Patrick Moynihan... Read more →
Almost all decision problems involve the simultaneous considerations of different objectives that are many times in conflict. In the software development world this might be characterized by a customer wanting a set of features to be delivered for a budget... Read more →
Whenever I hear "we need to focus on value over cost and schedule," it tells me that only ½ the equation of business success is understood. Absolutely value is needed and is the focus of our work efforts. No customer... Read more →
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