On a recent flight, I met Rory Rowland. Rory is in the Missouri House of Representative, a former CEO of a Credit Union, and a consultant and author. We started talking as well traveled travelers do, sharing backgrounds and current... Read more →
Principles, Processes, & Practices to Increase Probability of Cost, Schedule, & Technical Success
On a recent flight, I met Rory Rowland. Rory is in the Missouri House of Representative, a former CEO of a Credit Union, and a consultant and author. We started talking as well traveled travelers do, sharing backgrounds and current... Read more →
Posted at 08:10 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Capabilities, Decision Making, Deliverables Based Planning(r), Earned Value, Estimating, Governance, Management, Performance-Based Project Management®, Planning, Principles, Project Management, Requirements, Risk, Root Cause Analysis, Scheduling | Permalink | Comments (0)
This collection of presentations, briefings, journal and conference papers, essays, book content has been used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other business and technical... Read more →
Posted at 12:19 PM in Agile, Architecture, Balanced Scorecard, Business, Capabilities, Compendium, Decision Making, Deliverables Based Planning(r), Earned Value, ERP, Estimating, Governance, Government, IMP/IMS, Management, Model Based Design, Performance-Based Project Management®, PMI, Principles, Product Management, Project Management, Requirements, Research, Risk, Root Cause Analysis, Scheduling, Strategy, Technical Performance Measures, Technology, WBS | Permalink | Comments (0)
There always talk about Focus on Value. But that does that mean? What are the units of measure of Value? What does it Cost to deliver that Value? When will that Value be delivered? When is that Value Needed to... Read more →
Posted at 11:00 AM in Architecture, Balanced Scorecard, Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is. If it disagrees with Principles, it’s wrong. - Richard Feynman In that simple statement is the key to Principle Based Management of Other People’s money. † Most business departments have a set... Read more →
Posted at 08:40 AM in #NoEstimates, Balanced Scorecard, Principles | Permalink | Comments (0)
There is a posted question at an agile conference. Can you make a decision without an estimate? Like many discussions in the domain of agile, the statement is made without any evidence that it is true, nor can even be... Read more →
Posted at 03:48 PM in #NoEstimates, Balanced Scorecard, Business, Capabilities, Decision Making, Economics, Estimating, Governance, Management | Permalink | Comments (0)
Mike Cottmeyer posted This is an interesting article that misses the point of what's going on. Companies have too much management because they are poorly architected and not organized around value producing assets. When you don't have sufficient encapsulation, you... Read more →
Posted at 01:03 PM in Balanced Scorecard, Strategy | Permalink | Comments (0)
The current PMI Pulse titled Delivering Value: Focus on Benefits during Project Execution provides some guidance on how to manage the benefits side of an IT project. But the article misses the mark on an important concept. This is a... Read more →
Posted at 10:02 AM in #NoEstimates, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy | Permalink | Comments (0)
Two Critical Videos for Agile Transformation. Here's Part 1 Here's Part 2 So when we hear estimates are the smell of Dysfunction - what are the actionable outcomes needed to address these dysfunctions? To date there have been ZERO suggestions.... Read more →
Posted at 10:41 AM in #NoEstimates, Balanced Scorecard | Permalink | Comments (0)
It is common to confuse strategy with operational effectiveness. Strategy for Information Technology (IT) projects contains three major themes. These form the foundation of the IT Strategy as well as the tactical processes that will be deployed in support of... Read more →
Posted at 09:15 AM in Architecture, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy | Permalink | Comments (0)
In the literally 1,000's of pieces of correspondence I receive or send monthly, I came in contact with Impact Mapping, Gojko Adzic. At the same time I got an email from a person I met while speaking at last weeks... Read more →
Posted at 08:55 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Deliverables Based Planning(r), Estimating, Performance-Based Project Management® | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Death March project starts when we don't know what DONE looks like. Many of the agile approaches attempt to avoid this by exchanged not knowing for budget and time bounds. In the enterprise IT domain, those providing the money,... Read more →
Posted at 08:29 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Capabilities, Deliverables Based Planning(r), ERP, Governance, IMP/IMS, Planning, Requirements | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In a previous post on How to Assure Your Project Will Fail, the notion that the current project management processes are obsolete and the phrase of dealing with complexity on projects is a popular one in the software domain. By... Read more →
Posted at 11:57 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Capabilities, Estimating, Governance, IMP/IMS, Management, Planning, Project Management, Technical Performance Measures | Permalink | Comments (0)
There's a continuing discussion on LinkedIn and Twitter about project success, the waste of certain activities on projects, and of course the argument without end on estimating the cost of producing the value from projects. It's really a argument without... Read more →
Posted at 11:04 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Capabilities, Estimating, Governance, Management, Project Management, Systems Theory, Technical Performance Measures | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In a recent post titled #NoEstimates - Really? there was an interesting comment. Clearly, the business value of any feature or project can not be known with much certainty in advance of it being implemented. Still, for the purpose of... Read more →
Posted at 05:30 PM in Balanced Scorecard, Estimating, Governance, Management | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The discussion (of sorts) on Twitter around "no estimates" - what ever that actually means, since there is no definitive description other than exploring - brings me back to my core program management, project management, writing software for money, designing... Read more →
Posted at 09:17 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Estimating, Governance, Government, Management, Principles | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
In a conversation on Twitter with Sridhar, there was mention that product development software projects are different than internal IT projects. And that how they are run is much different as well. This may be the case. It's not been... Read more →
Posted at 09:50 AM in Agile, Balanced Scorecard, Estimating, Governance, Principles, Project Management, Strategy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
There is a discussion of sorts on LinkedIn about project management and competency that moved to the notion of strategy and how PMs are connected to strategy. Lots of diverse opinions. Many have suggested strategy for project based organizations is... Read more →
Posted at 09:10 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Project Management, Strategy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The delivery of "business solutions" depends on many things. But it starts with knowing and then producing the needed capabilities for success. Capabilities provide defined outcomes that are not a final conclusion, but the basis for continued assessment of value... Read more →
Posted at 10:12 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Business, Capabilities | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
All projects must have a strategy for success. This is not the strategy for building the product - although that is a must have as well. It is the strategy for the outcomes of the project. It is the set... Read more →
Posted at 08:36 AM in Balanced Scorecard, Project Management | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
The pursuit of operational effectiveness is seductive because it is concrete and actionable. Caught up in the race for operational effectiveness, many managers simply do not understand the need to have a strategy. – Dr. Michael E. Porter – Professor... Read more →
Posted at 08:49 AM in Agile, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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