White papers covering a wide range of topics while engaged in delivering outcomes. Ranging from software development, software and systems management, management of the project in several different domains, electronic document management, risk management, work breakdown structures, and science and math topics apply to solving complex problems.
Software Technology
- Components of Corba - keys to a complete Publishing System, News Paper Techniques, IFRA, July/August 2000.
Capabilities Based Planning
- Capabilities Based Planning, ... involves a functional analysis of operational requirements. Capabilities are identified based on the tasks required... Once the required capability inventory is defined, the most cost-effective and efficient options to satisfy the requirements are sought.”
Project Management
- Inversion of Control - The Impedance Mismatch in Integrated Engineering Design Systems.
- Options-Based Agile Decision Processes How to Apply “Real Options” Theory to the Deployment of ERP
- Managing the Deployment of ERP Systems in the Publishing Domain
- Can Earned Value Save Government Projects?
- The Gardening Analogy for Project Management
- Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) - Glen Alleman - Nilan-Sanders Associates 2002.
- The Basis of Project Success - 16 December 2009.
- Comments on "Managing Project Involving External Threats" in American Society of Project Managers.
- The Basis of the Five Immutable Principles, in Building Project Management into a Mission-Critical Endeavor in Public Manager, 2019.
- 20 Reasons Managers Fail and Ways to Fix Them
- Simple, Isn't Really Simple, failure of large systems is caused by the inability to rapidly adapt to changing environments.
- Agile Project Management and "Normative" Paradigms
- From Arms Race to Green Space: PPM at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
- What is System Architecture and Why Do We Care?
- Agile Project Management Methods for ERP - How to Apply Agile Processes to Complex COTS Projects and Live to Tell About It - XP/Agile Universe, 2002, Chicago Il, August 4 - 7, 2002, pp. 70-88, LNCS 2418, Don Wells and Laurie Willams editors.
- 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success - all successful projects adhere to five immutable principles
- "A Cure For Unanticipated Cost and Schedule Growth," Thomas J. Coonce and Glen Alleman.
- Information Technology Risk Management - The Concept of Risk, Its Management, and the Benefits to an IT Project, Glen Alleman, 2002
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success - Cost and schedule growth and technical shortfalls for any project or program are created when there are: 1. Unrealistic technical performance expectations, 2. Unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, 3. Inadequate risk assessments, and 4. Unanticipated technical issues, all based on poorly performed and inefficient risk management.
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline - The Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) is a time-phased, network of scheduled activities describing the work to be performed, the budgeted cost for this work, the organizational elements that produce the deliverables from this work, and the performance measures showing this work is proceeding according to plan.
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success - Principles are the Basis of Practices and Process for Project Success - Successfully managing any project, Capital projects, Software Intensive System of Systems projects, or home garden ‒ project success starts with Five Immutable Principles of success, listed to the right.
- Connecting IT and Business Value, Connecting IT and Business Value by Defining the Intangible Benefits through the Balanced Scorecard.
- Exception Handling in CORBA Environments - The Late Introduction of Distributed Exception Handling in Java CORBA-Based COTS Application.
- Is There an Underlying Theory of Software Project Management? - A critique of the transformational and normative views of project management. Traditional project management methods are based on scientific principles considered “normal science,” but lack a theoretical basis for this approach.
Electronic Document Management
- Electronic Document Management Tutorial - The Functional Architecture of an EDM Systems in the Process and Manufacturing Industries.
Earned Value Management
- The Six Business System Rule - Improving the effectiveness of DoD oversight of contractor business systems.
- Earned Value Management Meets Big Data, Glen Alleman and Thomas J. Coonce, ICEAA Denver.
Risk Management
- The Impact of Reducible and Irreducible Uncertainty on the Probability of Program Success
- Incorporating Risk Management in the Planning Process - In the project management domain the subject of risk management ranges from addressing the political risks of a project’s outcome; to the risks of a supplier failing to deliver on time; to the technical failure of a product in the market place, to the nearly endless possibilities that could disrupt the path to success.
- Schedule Risk Management - "One of the major intellectual triumphs of the modern world is the transformation of risk from a matter of fate to an area of study." In Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
- Building a Risk Tolerant Schedule - incorporating risk management in a visible manner provides governance of the project's technical and programmatic performance.
- Quantitative Risk Management - Once the risk management processes are been recognized as critical to the success of the project, the next step is to understand the details behind the development of the “risk profile.”
- Information Technology Risk Management - Installment 1: The Concept of Risk
- Information Technology Risk Management - Installment 2: Pre-Development Risks
- Information Technology Risk Management - Installment 3: Decision, Development & Post Development Risks
- The Impact of Reducible and Irreducible Uncertainty on the Probability of Program Success, Glen Alleman, Rick Price, and Thomas Coonce, Joint Space Cost Council, Scheduler's Forum, 2018.
- Building a Risk Tolerant IMS, Safran Risk Roadshow, McClean, VA June 23, 2015.
- Building a Risk Tolerant IMS - Using Earned Value to manage the risk of a project in terms of risk-adjusted physical performance.
- Building a Risk-Adjusted Engineering Estimate and Executing the Risk-Adjusted Product Roadmap - The Risk-Adjusted Product Roadmap starts with Risk-Adjusted Engineering Estimates and the resulting Rough Order of Magnitude Estimate
- Building Risk Tolerance into Program Plan and Schedule - six steps tp managing the uncertainty in a network of tasks
- Managing Risk as Opportunity - with uncertainty comes opportunity. Good risk management is not about fear of failure, it is about removing barriers to success.
- Lunch and Learn: Risk Management on a Well-Known Project, PMI Lakeshore Chapter, 14 September 2014.
- Building a Risk Tolerant Schedule - Technical and programmatic disruptions in project plans don’t need to negatively impact cost, performance, or schedule metrics.
- Managing Risk as Opportunity - with uncertainty comes opportunity. But if a project manager is consumed with managing the risks, there is little time to manage the opportunities.
- Information Technology Risk Management - The Concept of Risk, Its Management, and Benefits to an IT Project.
- Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces with Apologies to Jack - Managing Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis of Good Project Management.
- Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Risk management is essential for the success of any significant project. Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes are often unknown until the project is underway.
- Calling BS - reading Do I Make Myself Clear, where he speaks about the use and misuse of language.
Programmatic Risk Management in PM Weekly
- Programmatic Risk Management - 1st in a Series
- Programmatic Risk Management - 2nd in a Series
- Programmatic Risk Management - 3rd in a Series
- Programmatic Risk Management - 4th in a Series
Strategy
- IT Strategy Sample
- Earned Value and IT Incompatible? - The Value in Earned Value is not business value. It is how much of the budget has been earned? EV=PV * Physical Percent Complete
- What is Strategy?
- What is System Architecture and Why Do We Care?
Work Breakdown Structure
- Building Workpackages from Requirements - Using well-formed requirements, Work packages can be constructed directly from the Work Breakdown Structure
- Getting the WBS Right is Paramount - Focus of most Programmatics and Technical Status Discussions - Glen B Alleman and Gordon Kranz, Office of Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses (PARCA)
- WBS Compliance Challenges for Agile ERP Projects - Robin Pulverenti and Glen Alleman, 29th Annual International Integrated Program Management Workshop, October 30 - November 1, 2017
- IMP & WBS - Getting Both Right is Paramount - Gordon Kranz, Glen Alleman, Thomas Coonce, and David Walden, Integrated Performance Management 2014
Essays on Science, Math, and Project Management
Masters Thesis
- Fault-Tolerant Systems Reliability in the Presence of Imperfect Diagnostic Coverage, Glen B. Alleman, Master's in Systems Management, University of Southern California, 1980.
Science and Math
- The Kepler Problem - Can Kepler's Equations be Considered a Law of Nature?
- Proof of the Kepler Problem - Can Kepler's Equations be Proved and then Considered a Law of Nature?
- A Time Study in Numerical Methods Programming, Glen Alleman and John Richardson, University of California, Irvine, APL IV, Anaheim, CA, May 14-17, 1974 - With the digital computer firmly established as a research tool used by the scientist and engineer alike, a careful examination of some of the techniques used to solve the problems faced by the scientific user is warranted.
- The Mathematical Tour of the Electromagnetic Force - From Michael Faraday to Quantum Field Theory
Software Development
- Parameter Validation for Software Reliability, Glen Alleman, Fluor Corporation
