One of the issues I’ve had in my life is creativity, I was looking at this and my hobbies pretty much all revolve around rather structured activities. Racing, football and so all have very comprehensive…
Browsing Category PM stuff
With apologies to Crash Davis
As a PM here is what I believe I believe in… The church of the Project Charter Defined deliverables Listening to the experts Small teams with big white boards Understanding where value is added by…
Some thoughts on agile PM
Before today I knew a little about agile project management. It’s not a new model, especially if you’ve been involved in software development. On the surface it looks like another form of incremental and iterative…
Earned Value for the easily ammused
At work we use Earned Value to track our projects, not the most straightforward way to do it, but one that seems to add a lot of value for the work done. I like EV,…
Conversation and seared ahi
Made it to Disneyworld and the conference after a couple of delays, the PM track is very full and a couple of excellent papers tomorrow that are dealing with decision making and EV metrics that…
The impact of the highly improbable
I have just finished reading “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Black swan theory is used to explain rare, high impact events that were difficult to predict and leave some notable or significant legacy….
A planning dilema…
It’s that time of year when I need to buy my planner refill for next year, for the last couple of years I’ve been using Franklin Covey to help organize my work-flow. Generally I like…
Plan-Do-Check-Act in Production
“the “Plan-Do-Check-Act” mantra that runs deep through out the development cycle and we can see is at the center of the production processes.
What do you do with lessons learned?
’m interested in seeing how other organizations handle this close out, recording and sharing lessons learned with their PM communi
Toyota and NASA, very different goal setting methods
In contrast to Toyotas and their often vague, but challenging goals NASA uses a very different requirement process. They break the goal setting into four distinct actions before authorizing a project. Need – every requirement…