This web page contains presentations, formal briefings, papers, and workshops with the Principles, Processes, and Practices needed to increase the probability of project success in any domain, with any methods, or any tools
With the previous summary in Compendium for Herding Cats, and the Bibliographies for Estimating, Root Cause Analysis, and Risk Management this is the entire collection of work done over three decades of work focused on increasing the probability of project success for both agile and traditional projects in a variety of business and technical domains.
These materials have proved effective at addressing the Root Causes of project failure, which starts and ends with the failure to answer in meaningful units of measure, the Five Immutable Principles of Project Success....
- What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision-makers?
- What's the Plan to reach Done at the needed time for the needed Cost, with the needed Capabilities
- What Resources are needed to reach Done?
- What Impediments will be encountered along the way to Done and what are their handling plans?
- How will we measure Physical Percent Complete along the path to Done?
Without credible answers to these five questions, the probability of project success is significantly reduced.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
PMI Conference Presentations
- Getting to Done
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
- Managing in the Presence of Uncertainty
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
- Integrating Risk with Earned Value
- Building the Perfect Schedule: Increasing the Probability of Success
- Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actionable Information to the Program Manager
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
- The 5 Immutable Principles of Project Management Needed to Increase the Probability of Project Success
- Five Immutable Principles of Digital Transformation Project Success
- Improving the Probability of Project Success with Five Immutable Principles
- Successful Digital Transformation Starts with a well defined Executable Strategy for Success
Project and Program Management Symposium (PGCS) Presentations and Workshops https://www.pgcs.org.au/
2018
- Getting to Done: Principles, Processes, Practices, and Tools to Increase the Probability of Successfully Completing Project's On-Time, On-Budget with Needed Capabilities
- Getting to Done and Issues Along the Way
- Using Technical Performance Measures to Inform Earned Value Performance
2019
- Master Class: Integrating Systems Engineering and Project Performance Management
- Keynote - 2: Systems Engineering and Program Performance Management to create a Match Made in Heaven
- SE1 - Integrating Systems Engineering (SE) and Program Performance Management (PPM) to Increase the Probability of Delivering Needed Capabilities for Project/Program Success
- SE6 - Systems Engineering Panel Session
College of Performance Management (CPM) and
Integrated Performance Management Workshop (IPMW)
- PS-20 WBS Compliance Challenges for Agile ERP Projects
- A Study on Informing Earned Value by Objectively Assessing Accomplishment at Work Performance Level
- CPM-500(D): Implementing Technical Performance Measures
- PS-04 - Five Immutable Principles of Program Success, Their Processes and Practices
- PS-11 - IMP as the Definition of Done
- PS-20 - WBS Compliance Challenges for Agile ERP Projects
- PS-03 - Calculating Physical Percent Complete for the PMB Using an Agile Tool
- Exploring Ways to Inform Earned Value Using Technical Performance Measures
- CPM-200F: Technical Risk Management
- Using Technical Progress to Inform Earned Value Management
- Time to Do It Right
- Integrated Program Management Essential Views
- Critical Thinking on Critical Path Analysis
- Exploring Ways to Inform Earned Value Using Technical Performance Measures (TPMs)
- CPM-200F: Technical Risk Management
- PS-16 Dynamic Schedule Management
- Creating Credible Plan, Integrated Reporting, and Control Systems - Part 1
- Executing the Credible Plan, Using an Integrated Reporting and Control System, Part 2
- CPM-200C: Technical Performance Measures
- CPM-200: Scope and Organization Management
- IMP & IMS: Getting Both Right is Paramount
- Applying Risk Management to Increase Credibility of the IMS
- Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management
- The Nine "I's" of Program Success
- Agile-04: Integrating Agile with EVM
- CPM-500(D): Implementing Technical Performance Measures
- CPM-500(F): Technical Performance Measures
- Forecasting ACAT1 Program Performance in the Presence of Statistical Uncertainty
- Integrated Master Plan: The foundation for Program Success
- Earning Value from Earned Value, Using EV to Improve the Probability of Success
- PS-08 Knowing What Done Looks Like: Connecting the Dots Between Technical Performance Measures, Earned Value, and Physical Percent Complete
- Building Risk Tolerance into the Program Plan and Schedule
National Defense Industry Association (NDIA), DOD, and Related Organizations
- Successfully Integrating Agile with Earned Value
- Earned Value + Agile = Success
- Informing Program Performance with Technical Performance Measures (TPMs)
- Information Program Performance with Programmatic and Technical Risk
- Is Earned Value + Agile a Match Made in Heaven?
SAFRAN Webinar and Conference
- 5 Immutable Principles of Capital Project Success
- A Guide for Capital Project Managers - Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
CLIENT PRESENTATIONS
Balanced Scorecard
- Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map
- Technology Services Division Balanced Scorecard
- Information Technology Department Balanced Scorecard
- Balanced Scorecard IT Strategy and Project Management
- Managing Government Grant Projects at Arizona Public Service
- Earned Value + Agile = Success (Northrop Grumman)
Project Management Principles
- Showing How To Increasing the Probability of Project Success bu Applying the 5 Immutable Principles of Project Management in Under Four Hours
- From WBS to Integrated Master Schedule
- Getting the WBS Right is Paramount
- The Six Business System Rule
- Program Office Foundations
- 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success (EcoSys)
- 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success (Safran)
- Project Disappointment When We Fail to Recognize the Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
Agile Project Management
- DARPA WSRI Agile Program Management
- Probabilistic Schedule and Cost Analysis
- Agile Lifecycle - Product Roadmap, Release Plan, and Responsibilities, Epics, Features, Stories, and Tasks
OTHER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
- Using Balanced Scorecard to Build a Project Focused IT Organization
- Using a Cross Walk File to Manage Givers and Receivers
- From Needed Capabilities to Project Deliverables - On Time, On Budget, On Specification
- Essential Views of the Integrated Program Management Reports
- A Workshop for Developing Scrum Master's Product Owner's and Team Members
- How to Build a Credible Concept of Operations and Use It To Derive Capabilities and Features
- Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management (Deltek)
- The Intersection of Earned Value Management and Agile Software Development (Deltek)
- Options Based Agile Decision Processes
- Estimating and Reporting Agile Projects using the SRDR and Earned Value Management
- Big Data Meets Earned Value Management
- Product & Process Develop Kaizen for Software Development, Project, and Program Management
- Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment
- 5 Proven Approaches for Mitigating Project Failure
- Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS)
- Architecture Centered Publishing Systems
- A Cure for Unanticipated Cost and Schedule Growth
- Building a Risk Tolerant IMS
- Improving DOE Project Performance Using DOD Integrated Master Plan
- Cost and Schedule Integration: An Industry Update
- Making the Impossible Possible
TRAINING MATERIALS, LUNCH AND LEARNS, AND BROWN BAGS
General Project Management
- Connecting the 5 Principles and 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management® to Increase the Probability of Project Success
- Top Habits of Successful Project Managers
- Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline in Two Days
- Using Project Portfolio Management to Manage ICT Projects at Rocky Flats Environment Technology Site
- Creating the Balanced Scorecard - Small Group Hands-On
- Introduction to Balanced Scorecard - Large Group Orientation
- Building a Strategy Focused IT Organizations using Balanced Scorecard
- Increasing Your Project's Probability of Success
- Breaking the Project Failure Cycle
- Post-Normal Science and eXtreme Programming
- Integrating CMMI and Agile
- IMP / IMS Step by Step
- Applying the Checklist Manifesto for Project Management Success
- Performance-Based Management Project Management
- Flawless Execution: Using Fighter Pilot Techniques to Manage Our Weekly Activities
- Project Success Assessment
- Project Breathalyzer
- Nine Best Practices: The Software Management Framework
- Capabilities Based Planning
- Capabilities Based Planning (V2)
- Deliverables Based Planning
- Project Driven Organization Framework
- A Gentle Introduction to Deliverables Based Planning
- Program Governance Roadmap
- Critical Success Factors for Enterprise Projects
- Leading on the Edge & Managing IT Departments
- Performance-Based Project Management - In a Nutshell
- Time Management According to Stephen Covey
- The Five + One Easy Steps to an Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule
- Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
- Ten Rules for Common Sense Program Management
- Using CMMI as a Framework for Organizing Software Development Processes
- Notes on Real Options
- Building Teams Through Project Charters
- 10 Steps to Chartering the Project
- The Project Management Paradigm (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Building Workpackages from Requirements
Managing Agile Projects
- Monte Carlo Simulation and Estimating Traditional and Agile Development
- Governing Department of Energy Programs - Connecting Principles with Practice
- Paired Comparison Analysis
- The Socratic Method
- Survival in the Matrixed Organization
- Principles of IT Governance
- When is Light Right?
- Software for Our Minds
- The paradigm of Agile Project Management
- You Don't Need Agile to Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management
Cost, Schedule, and Estimating
- Estimating Cost and Schedule for Monte Carlo Simulation
- Network Schedule Analysis
- BOE (Basis of Estimate) Training
- Measures of Product Value in Exchange for Its Cost
- Time Box Scheduling
- Measures of Product Value in Exchange for Its Cost
- Forecasting Cost and Schedule Performance in the Presence of Uncertainty
- The Simple Problem of Schedule Performance Indices
Project and Program Management
- Enterprise Project Management Case Study
- Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline in Two Days
- Enterprise Project Management Case Study
- Event-Based Scheduling
- Enterprise Project Management Case Study
- Integrated Performance Management
- Managing the Change Culture
Earned Value Management
- Control Account Manager Short Course
- Earned Value Management Essentials
- Increasing Confidence in Box 6a, b, c, of IPMR Format 1, Using Existing EV-CR Data and built-in tools from R
- Earned Value Management Essentials
- Your Role as a Control Account Management in the Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)
- Parametric Project Monitoring and Control
- Notional CAM Interview Questions
- A Gentle Introduction to Earned Value Management Systems
- Some Have Said Schedule Variance (SV) Can Equal O and We've Overrun the Schedule?
- A Mashup for Two Emerging Ideas - Earned Value and Agile Development (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Earned Value Management FAR 34.2 and DFARS 252.234-7001
Risk Management
- Increasing the Probability of Success Using Risk+
- Applying Risk Radar to High-Risk Technology Projects
- Handling Risk on High Technology Programs
Project Management Case Examples
- Project Success Assessment
- Safe, Reliable, Available, High-Integrity, and Fault-Tolerant Embedded Software Systems
- Electronic Document Management Tutorial - Functional Architecture of an EDM System in Process and Manufacturing Industries
- Nine Best Practices: The Software Management Framework
- Leading on the Edge & Managing IT Departments
- Notes on Balanced Scorecard
- Using CMMI as a Framework for Organizing Software Development Processes
- Notes on Real Options
ESSAYS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND WHITE PAPERS
White Papers
- Capabilities Based Planning
- Government Contract Business Systems Compliance Guidance
- Lightweight Processes - Definition of a Light Weight Process
- Lightweight Processes - An Overview of Lightweight Development Processes and Selecting One For Your Project
- Creating the Foundation for IT Project Portfolio Management at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
- IT Strategy Summary
- Assessing Project Performance Beyond CPI/SPI
Journal Articles
- Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline (paper)
- Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline (Presentation)
- Agile Project Management Methods Meet Earned Value Management
- Components, CORBA, EAI - Keys to a Complete Publishing System?
- From Arms Race to Green Space: PPM at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
Essays on Risk Management
- Managing Risk and Opportunity - 1st in a Series
- Managing Schedule and Cost Risk - 2nd in a Series
- The Risk Tolerant Master Schedule - 3rd in a Series
- Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - 4th in a Series
- What is Risk?
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success with Continuous Risk Management
- Uncertainty and Resulting Risk on Project Management
- Managing Risk as Opportunity
- Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces with Apologies to Jack
- Managing Schedule Risks
- Management of Risk in the Performance Measurement Baseline
- Information Technology Risk Management - The Concept of Risk, Its Management and the Benefits to an ERP Project
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success with Continuous Risk Management
- Risk Assessment Template for Software Development or Acquisition Projects
Project Management
- The Basis of Project Success
- Beyond the Novice and the Advanced Beginner
- Project Success: The Basis of the Five Immutable Principles - Building Project Management into a Mission Critical Endeavor
- Why Agile is Best for Managing Projects in Principles, But Not Always in Practice
- Connecting Business Value with Earned Value to Increase the Probability of Success
- Can This Really Be True?
- The Basis of Project Success
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success
- Managing the Development of ERP Systems in the Publishing Domain
- What Does Done Look Like?
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
- A Cure for Unanticipated Cost and Schedule Growth
- How Should We Estimate Agile Software Development Projects and What Dat Do We Need?
- Blending Agile Development Methods with CMMI®
- Beyond CPI/SPI: Forecasting the Corrective Actions Needed to Keep the Program GREEN
- Making a Seamless Transition Between Vendors, Systems, and Processes
- Integrated Master Plan (IMP) Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
- Establishing the Performance Management Baseline (PMB)
- Influences on IT Strategy - How IT Strategy impacts the development of systems based on COTS products
- Pseudo-Science and the Art of Software Methods: Ascertaining of Success and Applicability
- Connecting IT and Business Value
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success
- GAO Cost Estimating Process
- Why is Project Management So Hard?
- 5 Immutable Principles of Success
- Writing a White Paper, Briefing, or Training Materials as a Three-Act Plan - Tell a Memorable Story
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- On Integrating Project Management and Systems Engineering - A Recent Encounter
- Comments on "Managing Projects Involving External Threats"
- Some Thoughts on Organizational Maturity Models
- Theory Versus Practice of Project Management
- Objectivity and Reason in Practices of Project Management
- The "Science" versus "Inner World" of Project Management
- Are the PMBOK® Principles Appropriate for Software Development Projects?
Agile Software Development
- Agile Alliance Manifesto Assessment
- Agile Project Management Methods
- Agile Project Management and "Normative" Paradigm
- Agile Project Management Methods for ERP: How to Apply Agile Processes to Complex COTS Projects and Live to Tell About It
- Agile Project Management Methods
- Agile Program Management: Moving from Principles to Practice
- Agile Project Management Methods for IT Projects
- The Agile Alliance has Stated Their Manifesto
- Agile Project Management and "Normative" Paradigms
Earned Value Management
- Are Earned Value and Agile Incompatible?
- Can Earned Value Save Government Projects?
- Earned Value for Commerical Projects
- Connecting EVM with Agile
- Building Information Model and Earned Value Management
Academic Papers
- Parameter Validation for Software Reliability
- A Time Study in Numerical Methods Programming
- Fault-Tolerant System Reliability in the Presence of Imperfect Diagnostic Coverage
- Exception Handling in CORBA Environments
- Architecture-Centered ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain
- Inversion of Control
- A Mathematical Tour of the Electromagnetic Force
- The Kepler Problem
- What Is System Architecture and Why Do We Care?
- What is Strategy?