Failure: The Option Media I was once in an engineering team meeting, where the snippet from the movie Apollo 13 was played. The scene demonstrated that famous saying, failure is not an option. I have heard this many times since then, not in business, but on other television shows and competitive events. The thing is, […]
Risk Management from Front and Back Recently I spoke at a Metrolina PMI Chapter on Risk Management. If we have been managing projects, we know that risk management is significant to ensuring project success. Risk management starts from the very beginning of the project, the scope, and our strategy selection will all impact the risks […]
Firefighting Hiding things is not a long term strategy We have recently written an article at our Assembly Mag column, Ps and Qs column on the metaphorical firefighter and things we do that encourages this behavior. There are many variants of this specific failure mode. To be clear, we are referring to valuing the heavy […]
Risk Management Through the Project In modern life, risk management is a fundamental discipline for success. This does not just apply to work life, or project management but also personal life. Today we are going to discuss the approaches and impacts on the project when there is insufficient attention to the risks to which the […]
A company is deciding to undertake product development project, there is a consideration that amounts to a type of bet.
We have written much on requirements in other blog posts. We have been maintaining this blog for years, admittedly sometimes more fervently than others. We have created a schedule for our blog posts and other events by Value Transformation personnel available either on the event location on the website or as a downloadable from the […]
Flip a coin, heads or tails. The probability that it will come up heads is 50%, after all there are only two sides. Flip that same coin again, the same probability, 50%. However, if we say that success is two successive heads (or tails) that is different. The probability of two consecutive heads, is the […]
Taxonomy of Project Failure – Risks Experience suggests there are many ways to project failure due to our project management actions, this does not include the riskiness of the effort in general that comes with the uncertainty associated with projects – these are not operations. Projects by definition have uncertain components, this is especially true […]
This blog post originates from Capers Jones LinkedIn comments about toxic requirements. He posted a comment to a requirements article and brought up bloated requirements and toxic requirements. I have never heard of the name “toxic requirements” perhaps that is uniquely Capers Jones identifier – I like it. However, I believe I have experienced toxic […]
We have discussed the nonfunctional requirements for extensibility in our earlier posts. Now we turn to others in the nonfunctional list of requirements. Today we are going to consider maintainability. Maintainability is the measure of ability to successfully repair or fix the product after manufacturing, usually in the field, and over time. For manufacturing entities, […]