A short Youtube video of a song about the ongoing Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission looking for water on the Moon. It was written and recoded by John Marmie one of the…
Browsing Category PM stuff
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Experimentation is a significant part of TPS and is one of the ways in which Toyota achieves the rather impressive targets it sets for itself. Organizations are encourage to test, learn from the results and…
Deeper into TPS – how people link the system.
This has led to a culture with of horizontal links between organisations.
How much work is too much when you need to find time?
The question we need to ask, is it worth the project team going to that level of detail for maybe 3-5% flow savings?
Stepping outside the process world
Just took part as a non-advocate review of after action review for a pure development engineering project that a friend of mine is delivering this afternoon. My projects have typically impacted operations and the factory,…
And the scope is important because…
In the last piece I talked how I’ve set up my charter and the importance I place on a well defined scope. This scope document will be part of every stage of the project and…
Buisiness requrements should drive the charter.
All detailed requirements should be based on clear business needs.
Happy, happy fun time… No Really…
I sat down with a friend for coffee this morning and spent a collective 20 minutes complaining about the frustrations, pressure, workload and all the little issues that make life difficult being a small part…
True meeting quote of the day…
“The actuals line is the forecasted actuals, not actual actuals so it is confusing.” A PM trying to explain an ugly chart to leadership, it did not go well after that.
Part 2 – Risk Management Planning
And always, always celebrate the wins.