IT project failure starts with demanding the project maintain its budget and delivery times in the absence of a Plan to go along with the Schedule of the work. Failure starts with the lack of an adequate description of what... Read more →
Principles, Processes, & Practices to Increase Probability of Cost, Schedule, & Technical Success
IT project failure starts with demanding the project maintain its budget and delivery times in the absence of a Plan to go along with the Schedule of the work. Failure starts with the lack of an adequate description of what... Read more →
Posted at 12:49 PM in Agile, Business, Capabilities, Decision Making, Deliverables Based Planning(r), Earned Value, Estimating, Governance, IMP/IMS, Management, Performance-Based Project Management®, Planning, Principles, Product Management, Project Management, Requirements, Scheduling | Permalink | Comments (0)
This is a new Category on Herding Cats that comes from my finishing of the book Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics, Gary Smith. Of late I've encountered many people on the web... Read more →
Posted at 07:19 PM in #NoEstimates, Agile, Business, Decision Making, Don't Be Fooled, Estimating, Management, Mathematics, Planning, Principles, Project Management, Risk, Things I Know About | Permalink | Comments (0)
In Software Value of something is totally unrelated to Cost This is a popular fallacy in the #Noestimates advocates vocabulary. Let's look at the principles of cost, price, and value to the customer from the point of view of the... Read more →
Posted at 07:37 AM in #NoEstimates, Business, Decision Making, Estimating, Fallacy of the Week, Governance, Logical Fallacy, Management, Planning, Principles, Product Management, Project Management | Permalink | Comments (1)
Agree, and focus more on discovery since in *delivery* you have 4 problems: 1. Requirements will change, 2. Requirements are never complete 3. It’s impossible to gather all requirements in beginning 4. You don’t have enough time or $$$ to... Read more →
Posted at 08:42 AM in Agile, Business, Decision Making, Deliverables Based Planning(r), Estimating, Fallacy of the Week, Governance, Government, Management, Planning, Principles, Product Management, Project Management, Requirements, Scheduling, Technical Performance Measures | Permalink | Comments (5)
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)
Here's a notion that is popular in the agile community from the @agilefant tweeter feed. This notion appears when corporate governance is not part of the conversation. The role of governance is to define the decision rights of the participants... Read more →
Posted at 08:18 AM in #NoEstimates, Architecture, Business, Capabilities, Governance, Principles, Requirements, Risk, Root Cause Analysis | Permalink | Comments (0)
"On spec" is open loop control on value. Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. Project controls are concerned with the metrics of the... Read more →
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. - Bruce Lee But do this within establish governance frameworks, principles of microeconomics of decision making and managerial finance. It's probably not your money and... Read more →
Posted at 08:34 AM in Business, Decision Making, Economics, Governance, Management, Principles | Permalink | Comments (0)
Requirements, as traditionally used, are a separation tool. To separate the "thinkers" from the "doers". In software this is a HUGE mistake! This conjecture is a fallacy. The purpose of requirements elicitation, use, and implementation of the requirement that result... Read more →
Posted at 11:33 AM in #NoEstimates, Agile, Architecture, Business, Capabilities, Debunking, Decision Making, Fallacy of the Week, Logical Fallacy, Root Cause Analysis, Strategy, Systems Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
When we see things happen, we attribute them to a reason. Not just basic observations in life, but observations on projects, and all the way down to the basics of ontology. If we observe certain things and those things behave... Read more →
Posted at 05:01 PM in #NoEstimates, Business, Capabilities, Decision Making, Principles, Risk, Root Cause Analysis | Permalink | Comments (0)
Mike Cohn, one of my favorite blogger's and author's, made a post awhile back about Agile and the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management. With some posts this week on twitter about not needing project management or estimates to be... Read more →
Posted at 02:39 PM in #NoEstimates, Agile, Business, Decision Making, Estimating, Governance, Management, Performance-Based Project Management®, Planning, Principles, Project Management, Requirements, Root Cause Analysis, Scheduling | Permalink | Comments (0)
Captain Jack Sparrow, started as a supporting character to Orlando Bloom’s Wil Turner. He then outshone the ostensible hero and became an archetype unto himself. Here are three Leadership Tips from an INCOSE presentation "We Need More Jack Sparrow, Savvy?... Read more →
Posted at 06:40 AM in Business, Decision Making, Governance, Management, Performance-Based Project Management®, Project Management, Root Cause Analysis | Permalink | Comments (0)
Business runs on deadlines and milestones for a simple reason - Time is Money Those paying for the development of a product or service have an expectation that they will get the value from their investment on some date in... Read more →
Posted at 08:31 AM in #NoEstimates, Agile, Business, Capabilities, Decision Making, Economics, Estimating, Governance, Management, Performance-Based Project Management®, Planning, 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)
Successfully managing projects, no matter the domain, the size, the development or engineering method starts with a set of Principles, Practices, and Processes. Here are those Principles and Practices. The Principles are Immutable. The Practices are universal. The Processes need... Read more →
There's a blog post from a few years back that has resurfaced The 5 Laws of Software Estimates. It's one of those posts that's heavy on opinion and light on principles. Time to revisit this ill-informed idea on why, what,... Read more →
Posted at 01:32 PM in #NoEstimates, Agile, Business, Capabilities, Economics, Estimating, Principles | Permalink | Comments (0)
It seems of late there is a campaign in the software development community, especially in the agile community where ignorance is a virtue. Ignorance of the microeconomics of decision making. The ignorance that all project work contains uncertainty, that uncertainty... Read more →
Posted at 04:10 PM in #NoEstimates, Agile, Business, Debunking, Decision Making, Economics, Estimating, Management | Permalink | Comments (1)
Organizational Effectiveness is a basis of rational management. The organization is one of mankind's all-time greatest inventions. An organization is intended to operate as one unit, with all its parts in efficient coordination. But all too often it does not.... Read more →
Posted at 07:58 AM in #NoEstimates, Business, Decision Making, Governance, Logical Fallacy | Permalink | Comments (0)
I belong to an invitation blog for military people. In a recent post, they shared a post from the York Region District School Board, D'Youville College, Aleksandr Noudelman about leadership. This post resonanted with me when I hear about simple... Read more →
Posted at 04:19 PM in Business, Governance, Management | Permalink | Comments (2)
It's common to hear, projects are overhead, we just need to get the value to the customer as fast as possible. This seems to be a lament from agile developers. Anything getting in the way of the coding is seen... Read more →
Posted at 08:47 AM in #NoEstimates, Business, Debunking, Decision Making, Economics, Estimating | Permalink | Comments (0)
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