Review of Rate of Accomplishment From our earlier blog post, we discussed task dependencies and how understanding these connections improve our probability of project success as it pertains to schedule. Additional information on dependencies can be found in our book Project Management of Complex and Embedded Systems. Monitoring Rate of Accomplishment means Measuring So what […]
Accountability and Dependencies. There is much ballyhoo over accountability. Accountability is very important as without responsibility and accountability a project or an organization will never survive let alone thrive. There are times when we push for accountability; however, and few of the prerequisites for the accountability are not met. I am writing specifically accountability as […]
Scope Change and Failure Change happens in that there can be no doubt. Projects must contend with this pitching deck of an operating environment while achieving the end objective. A significant negative impact can be change. Even controlled change can have a detrimental effect on the project success. To fit the classification of controlled change […]
It was a beautiful weekend for working in the yard. Specifically, mowing the leaves as a way to mulch them and return nutrients back to the soil. I was fortunate that I had an interesting song playing in my head. Not one of those annoying ones that often can get stuck in your head and […]
With Agile, Every Day is a Review Day The constant reviews of status of the project activities via daily Agile sprint meeting, provides the mechanism for the latest state of the project. This includes the scrum master and product owner apprised of the situation. I like the analogy of a pilot making course corrections. If […]
The following text is the Preface to Scrum Project Management written by Kim H Pries and Jon M Quigley and published by CRC Press from Boca Raton Florida published in 2011 Product development is becoming ever more complex. The pace of technological change is ever increasing, leaving little time to accumulate expertise before […]
Conventional Project The previous two blogs demonstrated a way to employ agile techniques. At the top level the project was executed as a conventional project. The project had gates, a steering committee and numerous schedule layers. The organizational structure is balanced matrix (for the most part). The organization is distributed both by function and geographic […]
As we execute the test cases, we will likely find failures. These failures or faults will be reported into a reporting system that will allow us to track the failure resolution. We can also use that here in our progress tracking sheet.
Agile in Conventional Project Line Management The following is a story from a couple of years back. The story is about lengthy set of verification activities (multiple iterations) in a large conventionally run project. As many a test engineer will relate, testing is always cramped for time. Meaning, the time we want the answers is much […]
By Shawn P. Quigley Value Transformation LLC has recently posted several articles on Organizational Learning and Leadership. The reason why we here at Value Transformation have posted these articles are that we want to show how the training and assistance we provide is more than just how to manage a project. Value Transformation LLC believes […]