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Transforming Resources for Agile & Lean.
Value Transformation offers a comprehensive library of resources designed to educate, inform, and support businesses at every stage of growth. These resources include in-depth videos that break down complex concepts, podcasts featuring expert insights and real-world discussions, and white papers that explore key strategies, technologies, and industry trends.
In addition, detailed case studies highlight proven results and practical applications, showcasing how organizations have achieved measurable improvements in quality, cost, and performance. Together, these resources provide valuable guidance and actionable knowledge, helping clients make informed decisions and drive meaningful, lasting results within their operations. Please scroll down for resources for each topic & service offered by Value Transformation.
Agile & Lean
- Complex Program Management with Scrum
- Why Scrum? A Short Answer
- Using Scrum for Project Management
- PD&D Thesis: Using Scrum for Project Management
- DevOps – 7 Causes of Continuous Delirium
- Of course Psychological…But How?
- Lean and Projects
- Kanban vs Scrum — Every Difference Your Team Needs To Know [2020]
- 15 Plus Must Have Project Management Books
- An Overview of Scrum
A3 Template with Instructions
Reducing Process Costs – Value Transformation Book
What is a Negative Margin Launch
Building a Cause and Effect Diagram
8D Template
CMMI Tracking
Pugh Matrix
Using Pareto Charts
TIEMP 02
What makes sense in Scrum Projects, Joe Dager and Jon M. Quigley Listen Here
Guardrails, Reciprocal Agreements, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
Gemba Walk, Agile Development, No Right Way Listen Here
SPaMCAST 479 – Mentor or Coach, TameFlow Chapter 21a, Employee Engagement Listen Here
SPaMCAST 483 – Measuring The Value of Agile, TameFlow Chapter 21, Agile Culture Listen Here
SPaMCAST 585 – Most Agile Transformations Ignore Technical Skills, A Conversation with Susan Parente and Jon M Quigley Listen Here
SPaMCAST 495 – Done, Waste and Innovation; Kanban to the Kanban Power Listen Here
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 477 – Silence: A Powerful Tool, Muddling Through, Monolithic Monolith Listen Here
SPaMCAST 552 – Fit For Value, Saying No, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 686 – Pitchforks and Torches, Work in 2022, A Panel Listen Here
SPaMCAST 694 – The Team Lead Role In Agile, Time, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
SPaMCAST 711 – Why Re-read Saturday, Team Leaders In Scrum, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
SPaMCAST 731 – Giving Thanks, Flow, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
SPaMCAST 824 You Can Never Cross The Same River Twice, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
SPaMCAST 816 Goal Conflicts Cause Work Intake Problems, Finding Time To Concentrate Listen Here
SPaMCAST 809 Accountability vs. Responsibility Debate, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
SPaMCAST 799 Beyond Buzzwords – Rethinking Collaboration in Software Development and Prioritization vs. Micromanagement Listen Here
APQP / PPAP
- The APQP approach to launching products, Part 1
- The APQP approach to launching products, part 2
- Automotive embedded development and testing
- The Art Career Project
- eHow UK Quality APQP & PPAP Definitions
- PD&D Project Management of Embedded Systems
- PD&D Collecting and Reporting Material Content
- EE Times; Standards Requirements and PPAP
- PMI Embedded Project Management – Automotive Style
- PD&D Printing of 3D Parts in Aerospace
- Pannam – Biggest Challenges faced by Developers
- 8 Logistics Skills That Can Help Advance Your Supply Chain Career
- Inline Bar code Verifier Systems: Validating Test Results
- Effective way to create a winning supply chain strategy – 6 River Systems
- DFMA lets engineers focus on what they do best – Assembly Mag
- Prototyping Complex Harnesses – Assembly Mag
- 13 Entrepreneurs Explain How Rescue A CEO
- Automotive Embedded Project Management and Product Development
- Gauge repeat ability and reproducibility
- DFMA lets engineering focus on what they do best
- 8D and A3 Formalize Problem Solving
- The APQP approach to launching products
- Parts, Quarantine and Recovery
- 3 Tips For Digitizing Your Shipping & Supply Chain
- A New Way to Analyze and Visualize Your Product Definition
- All Your Eggs in One Basket
- Business Continuity Checklist for B2B Commerce
- TQM Tools: A Story of Product Discovery
- 5 Supply Chain Tips
- Quigley’s Corner: Failure Mode Effects Analysis
- Quigley’s Corner: On the Way to Delivery
- What is Exploratory Testing?
- 26 supply chain pros reveal the single most effective way to create a winning supply chain strategy
- Risk Management: A Principal Vendor Performance Management Benefit
- Top 6 Expert Opinions on Importance of Software Product Technical Audit
- Quigley’s Corner: Project Management for Automotive Engineers
- The challenges of testing increasingly complex systems
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR CARS IS A BIT DIFFERENT
- Battery powered vehicles are 100-year-old technology
- Best Practices in Strategic Vendor Management
- Be Careful of Dogma on Assembly Lines
- Just How “Green” are Battery-Powered Vehicle
- Supplier Risk Assessment
- How to Write a Clear, Successful Vendor Management Program
- Quigley’s C0rner: Motorcycle Sprint Racing
- Embedded Product Development Engineer
- Quigley’s Corner: While you were Working
- Asked Experts Why Carmakers Can’t Just Transition To Newer Chips In Stock.
- Quigley’s Corner: The Integrated Circuit Shortage – Blame the Customer?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of modular design for electronics products?
- All Dev Teams Write Documentation. But Do Users Read It?
- INTERVIEW WITH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SPECIALIST JON M. QUIGLEY
- Why The Chip Shortage Response is Complicated
- Hexagon Approach to New Product Development in EVs: Navigating Challenges and Innovations
Project Management for Automotive Engineers Listen Here
SPaMCAST 380 – Kim Robertson, The Big Picture of Configuration Management Listen Here
SPaMCAST 346 – Configuration Management, An Interview With Jon M Quigley Listen Here
SPaMCAST 477 – Silence: A Powerful Tool, Muddling Through, Monolithic Monolith Listen Here
SPaMCAST 380 – Kim Robertson, The Big Picture of Configuration Management Listen Here
SPaMCAST 346 – Configuration Management, An Interview With Jon M Quigley Listen Here
Peterman Design Firm- Conscious Management, An Interview With Jon M Quigley Listen Here
APQP – Advance Product Quality Planning – an approach to automotive product development and manufacturing which includes tools and techniques in addition to processes for designing and manufacturing a quality product at automotive production volumes.
Configuration & Data Management
Configuration Management Tales part 1 , Joe Dager and Kim Robertson Listen Here
Configuration Management Tales part 2 , Joe Dager and Kim Robertson Listen Here
Evolution of the product through configuration management , Joe Dager and Jon M. Quigley – Discussion of the role configuration management plays in orchestrating the functional and feature growth of the product through the development process and throughout the product life-cycle Listen Here
SPaMCAST 380 -The Big Picture of Configuration Management, Tom Cagley and Kim L. Robertson – Configuration Management is a common thread that ties the various departments and organization together, facilitating coordination of effort and is fundamental to product and human growth. Listen Here
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 552 – Fit For Value, Saying No, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 856 Playing Billiards On A Boat, Essays and Conversations with Jon M Quigley Listen Here
Spamcast 380 – Kim Robertson, The Big Picture of Configuration Management Listen Here
Configuration Management – a product management system that ultimately ensures product repeatability of performance, functional and physical attributes, by managing changes throughout the product development lifecycle.
- https://cmpic.com/
Cost Management
Building a Cause and Effect Diagram
Pugh Matrix
How to Brainstorm
Using Pareto Charts
Learning Organization & Organization Development (LO-OD)
PMI Embracing Mistakes Learning from Experience
PMI Project Management and the Learning Organization
PDD – Project Development and the Learning Organization
Fit Small Business Company Culture Ideas
Peoplemaven Wise Hiring Managers with Can’t Miss Job Openings
Fit Small Business Encourage Strong Work Ethic
22 Ways To Show A Strong Work Ethic To Your Employees In Experts View
8 cognitive biases that affect how you manage your team
The Importance of Documenting Lessons Learned
Project Management and the Learning Organization
Two Sides (at Least to Every Story): Managing and Resolving Conflict
Learning Management Systems or Training Systems By Experts
6 Mental Maladies That Could Impact Your Project
Reward Proactive Action Over Firefighting
How to Implement Organizational Development
Technical Writer – Jon M Quigley
Project Team and Cognitive Behavior
Building a Cause and Effect Diagram
Pugh Matrix
How to Brainstorm
Using Pareto Charts
SPaMCAST 799 – Beyond Buzzwords – Rethinking Collaboration in Software Development and Prioritization vs. Micromanagement – Finding the Right Balance
Listen Here
Personal Process Improvement, Ethics in Software, People Listen Here
Two Storytelling Techniques, Testing Conferences, Mental Models Listen Here
SPamCast 432 – Leadership Types, On-Boarding, Surprises in QA, Holy Trinity Listen Here
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 477 – Silence: A Powerful Tool, Muddling Through, Monolithic Monolith Listen Here
SPaMCAST 479 – Mentor or Coach, TameFlow Chapter 21a, Employee Engagement Listen Here
SPaMCAST 483 – Measuring The Value of Agile, TameFlow Chapter 21, Agile Culture Listen Here
SPaMCAST 552 – Fit For Value, Saying No, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 703 – Commitment, Humans and Automation, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
SPaMCAST 440 – Two Storytelling Techniques, Testing Conferences, Mental Models Listen Here
Process Management
CMMI Tracking
8D Template
Pugh Matrix
How to Brainstorm
Using Pareto Charts
Spamcast Spring Rewind 8 – Annual Panel Discussion 2024
Habits Stink, A Panel Discussion, SPaMCAST 870
SPaMCAST 477 – Silence: A Powerful Tool, Muddling Through, Monolithic Monolith Listen Here
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 552 – Fit For Value, Saying No, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
Spamcast 380 – Kim Robertson, The Big Picture of Configuration Management Listen Here
SPaMCAST 346 – Configuration Management, An Interview With Jon M Quigley Listen Here
SPaMCAST 637– Process Improvement Disconnected, Cost of Poor Quality, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
Test & Verification Management
- PD&D There is a lot to product testing
- Design Reuse – Automated Testing and Simulation
- Test-Talk Testing Results and Predictions
- Test-Talk Qualitative Testing
- Test-Talk Testing and Evidence
- Test-Talk Testing, Product Growth and Configuration Management
- Embedded Magazine, Testing, Inspection and Evaluation
- Embedded Magazine, What you need to know about automated testing and simulation
- Elephant Scale – Big Data Testing
- What testers should know about domain knowledge
- What is Exploratory Testing?
- The Embedded Software Development Process
- Quigley’s Corner: Wire harness development and testing
- The challenges of testing increasingly complex systems
- The Embedded Software Development Process
- Test Engineer
- Quigley’s Corner: While you were Working.
2019 Carolina Collegiate Student Chapter
Building a Cause & Effect Diagram
CMMI Tracking
8D Template
Pugh Matrix
How to Brainstorm
TIEMP 02
Using Pareto Charts
Test and verification management – techniques for ensuring the product design, material and, where applicable, manufacturing processes culminate in meeting the customer’s needs. At the minimum verification serves to confirm or refute the product meets requirements. However, there are many other approaches to testing iterations of the product through the development process. This includes software testing, which consists of processes and techniques that is coupled with the development effort to ensure the product quality over prototype iterations and the full lifecycle of the product.
Quality Management
- Software Advice; Project Management Software
Small Business BuyerView | 2014 - Quality Magazine Testing and Inspection During Development
- Embedded Magazine Software Quality and Configuration Management
- Quality Management in Space
- Quality Products Start with Quality Projects
- Gauge repeat ability and reproducibility
- DFMA lets engineering focus on what they do best
- Prototyping Complex Harnesses
- 8D and A3 Formalize Problem Solving
- TQM Tools: A Story of Product Discovery
- Quigley’s Corner: Failure Mode Effects Analysis
- What is Exploratory Testing?
- 26 supply chain pros reveal the single most effective way to create a winning supply chain strategy
- Quigley’s Corner: Wire harness development and testing
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR CARS IS A BIT DIFFERENT
- Be Careful of Dogma on Assembly Lines
- The Embedded Software Development Process
A3 Template with Instructions
Building a Cause & Effect Diagram
8D Template
CMMI Tracking
Pugh Matrix
How to Brainstorm
TIEMP 02
Using Pareto Charts
A3 VS 8D: Which Methodology Should You Choose for Problem-Solving? Listen Here
SPaMCAST 462 – Project Management for Automotive Engineers Listen Here
SPaMCAST 627 – Collaboration, Fit for Use, Essays and Conversations Listen Here
SPaMCAST 604 – Continuous improvement, Definition of Quality, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
Influencers Part IV – Quality Listen Here
SPaMCAST 477 – Silence: A Powerful Tool, Muddling Through, Monolithic Monolith Listen Here
SPaMCAST 552 – Fit For Value, Saying No, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 479 – Mentor or Coach, TameFlow Chapter 21a, Employee Engagement Listen Here
SPaMCAST 637 – Process Improvement – Disconnected Cost of Poor Quality Essays and Conversation Listen Here
Which Methodology Should You Choose for Problem-Solving? Listen Here
Quality management – a set of tools and techniques used to ensure that the organization delivers a consistent product or service. Quality management consists of quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement.
Project Management
- Book excerpt: ‘Project management of complex and embedded systems’
- Media for the Mobile and Frequent Traveler
- When Words Collide
- Sunk Cost and Project Risk
- PD&D Hope is not a Productive Project Method
- PD&D Project Development and the Learning Organization
- Pannam Imaging; New Product Development Challenges
- Project Management (PMI); Systematic Risk Register
- Project Management (PMI); Project Task Duration Estimation and Scheduling
- Project Management (PMI); Project Management and the Learning Organization
- DevOps.Com; 7 Causes of Continuous Delirium
- Mavinlink; What Keeps Even the Best Project Leaders Awake at Night?
- PM2Go; Numerous blog posts.
- PD&D; Efficacy of Globalization Is Contingent on Quality of Global Teaming
- PMI Task Duration and Estimation and Scheduling
- PMI Hope Project Management
- When Words Collide – PD&D
- PMI WBS Building Blocks of Sound Project Management
- PMI Systematic Risk Register
- Smart Sheet, Statement of Work
- Journik Optimizing Project Management and Business
- Software Advice Project Management
- Risk and Project Sunk Cost
- What keeps even the best project leaders awake at night
- When Words Collide – Manufacturing.net
- 10 Best Project Management Books you Should Read in 2018 – Filestage
- Mavinlink; Opening the door: 10 predictions on the Future of Project Management
- Assorted contributions to PM2Go for the Standish Group
- Getting Started with ISO Standard for Project Management ISO 21500:2012
- What Would I Tell a Junior Project Manager?
- Thoughts on Risk Management at Learn.G2
- A Step-By-Step Process for Making the Right Business Decisions
- 50+ Warning Signs of a Bad Boss or Manager – Upjourney
- Something Matter More than Others
- What the heck is a WBS?
- Law of Diminishing Returns
- Risk, What could go wrong?
- Lean and Projects
- The Status Quo Problem
- Embracing Mistakes: Learning from Experience
- Automotive Embedded Project Management and Product Development
- Project Management and the Learning Organization
- Directed system or pull system—the schedule tango
- The Importance of Documenting Lessons Learned
- Two Sides (at Least to Every Story): Managing and Resolving Conflict
- More on Conflict Resolution
- Tools or Talent
- 6 Tips for Writing Statements of Work
- Project Management Software Recommendations by Experts
- Simplified Guide to Vendor Risk Assessment
- What does a project manager do on a daily basis?
- Intention and Follow Through
- 5 Supply Chain Tips
- Tough Conversations for Project Managers
- Simplified Guide to Vendor Risk Assessment
- 6 Mental Maladies That Could Impact Your Project
- De-scoping a project
- 15 Plus Must Have Project Management Books
- Getting asynchronous communications right
- Reward Proactive Action Over Firefighting
- Risk Management: A Principal Vendor Performance Management Benefit
- Top 6 Expert Opinions on Importance of Software Product Technical Audit
- Quigley’s Corner: Project Management for Automotive Engineers
- My Project is Out of Control
- Project Management in a Small Company
- Project Team and Cognitive Behavior
- Project Assumptions
- Risks and the Schedule
- Best Practices in Strategic Vendor Management
- Battery-Powered Vehicles are 100-year-old technology
- Risk and the Schedule
- Be Careful of Dogma on Assembly Lines
- Project Scope Reality
- Just how Green are Battery-Powered Vehicles
- Exploring Potential Consequences
- Supplier Risk Assessment
- The Project and the Contract
- Planning Forward, Looking Backward
- Danger, Danger Will Robinson
- Conflict Makes the World Go Round
- Change Management, the Series
- Change Management, the Series Two
- Change Management, the Series – Agile
- Intro to Program Management
- WBS
- Rolling Wave Planning
2019 Carolina Collegiate Student Chapters
Checklist
CMMI Tracking
Pugh Matrix
Expectations of Contractors & Engineers
How to Brainstorm
How to have better Meetings
Meeting Minutes
Project Estimation
Risk Analysis
Using Pareto Charts
Manufacturing Southeast X.0 Press release
Sunday Lunch Project Manager- podcast: #165 Jon M Quigley, The Risky Guy (Part 2) Listen Here
Sunday Lunch Project Manager- podcast #164 Jon M Quigley, The Risky Guy (Part 1) Listen Here
The Risky Guy – The Sunday Lunch Project Manager Listen Here
SPaMCAST 799 – Beyond Buzzwords – Rethinking Collaboration in Software Development and Prioritization vs. Micromanagement – Finding the Right Balance Listen Here
Risk and Resilience at the UMD PM Symposium Listen Here
SpAMCAST 462 – Project Management for Automotive Engineers, A discussion of our SAE Project Management book with Tom Cagley Listen Here
The Product Development Guy – Part 1 Listen Here or Here
SPaMCAST 477 – Silence: A Powerful Tool, Muddling Through, Monolithic Monolith Listen Here
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 479 – Mentor or Coach, TameFlow Chapter 21a, Employee Engagement Listen Here
SPaMCAST 575 – Messing Up Agile Hybrids, Deming and Book Club, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 552 – Fit For Value, Saying No, Essays and Discussions Listen Here
SPaMCAST 479 – Mentor or Coach, TameFlow Chapter 21a, Employee Engagement Listen Here
The Sunday Lunch Project Manager meets Jon M. Quigley, The Product Development Guy Listen Here
A collection of management processes and knowledge areas that are employed by the project manager to deliver the expected results for the organization; scope, schedule, and cost. Project management is a collection of technical, management and soft skills.
Requirements Management
- Smart File Requirements Management Standards
- PD&D Understanding Real Demands On the Product part 1
- PD&D Understanding Real Demands On the Product part 2
- Embedded – Using requirements planning to collect analyze and meet product goals
- Bar code test: STANDARDS: ARE THEY IMPORTANT AND WHY?
- All Dev Teams Write Documentation. But Do Users Read It?
Requirements management – consists of the approaches we use to evoke, prioritize and document the expectations of the product. This includes the quality attributes of the articulation of those requirements along with managing the changes and traceability of the requirements to the customer’s needs or demands.