No matter the industry or domain, there will be times when we need to quickly make a management or technical decision. Decision matrix allows us to compare a range of solutions to a defined set of criterion. A quick and easy tool to accomplish this assessment is the decision matrix, of which there are two […]
Time boxed or time boxing is when we have a hard fixed time around the activity we are undertaking. For example, we may decide that our team is allowed a fixed amount of time to plan or estimate. A meeting has a fixed duration and done effectively an agenda that further breaks down the time […]
Features and Business Case The last blog post was about how we justify the project and the business case from an agile perspective along with a study from The Standish Group. The reason attaching the business case to the product backlog, or in the case of conventional project management specific requirements, is so we have […]
By Shawn P. Quigley If you have read any of our blog post you know that Value Transformation bases itself in an Organizational Developmental and Learning Organizational model. If you have not read any of our posts then we would suggest that you take a few moments and look through a few: The Leadership Equation, […]
First of all, I hate the word human resources for our employees. This verbiage starts the discussion as if people were fungible. That people, their talents, aspirations, motivation and capability are identical. That is simply not true. I just got out of a discussion with a company that left me feeling hopeful. After working in […]
Simultaneous work and an Agile Approach There are ways to divide the work up using an agile approach. This can get complicated for distributed teams but for teams that are on the same site the challenge is greatly reduced. We once worked on an embedded development project for an electronic control unit on a vehicle. […]
Recently I was talking with a company that has achieved the level 3 (defined) CMMI from the Software Engineering Institute that provides a measure of an organizations maturity and capability. During this conversation, I had a flash to another company that had aspirations of being a level 3 but could never make it beyond their […]
Risks and Risk Management We continue with our series on the taxonomy of failures in project knowledge areas looking at risk management. In this case turning our breakdown of the project failures toward risk management. Risk management is fundamental to project management as we reduce or navigate the potential impediments to the success of our […]
Risk and Time Management In keeping with our last post, we discuss risks due to insufficient time management that often result in project failures. As is with many things, the symptom of the failure has roots much earlier. In other words, when we witness the failure, it was due to some event(s) or activities much […]
We have recently posted how assumptions, left unquestioned can damage a project. It is similarly true for the product when we use models and simulation to generate our product. In the course of building these models, we will know some things for certain. Some attributes of the model we may think we know for certain […]