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Predictive Metrics – Measuring the right things to ensure project success

Sunday, September 11th, 2011in Book, Predictive Metrics, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

What’s New? Companies are measuring the wrong things and ending up with the wrong results. Many times we get stuck on measuring what’s easy instead of what’s useful, or we focus on validating whether we succeeded or failed instead of measuring the elements that would tell us that a project is getting ready to go [...]

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Parametric Schedule Estimation “Lite”

Sunday, August 28th, 2011in Book, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

Marcus Aurelius: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” Contributed by Wayne Mackey http://pdcinc.com What’s New? There are environmental and internal changes that make schedule estimation take on a new level of importance. Parametric schedule [...]

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Risk Mapping

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011in Book, Innovation, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

Ray Kroc: “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” Contributed by Scott Elliott, TechZecs LLC. http://techzecs.com/ What’s New? Product development is inherently a big set of risks. The main purpose of a product development project is to reduce the uncertainty of the product’s success and any associated risks [...]

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Agile Burndown Graphs

Friday, August 19th, 2011in Book, Predictive Metrics, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

What’s New? Software development has migrated to some degree from the waterfall model, where there is a clear handoff from one stage to the next, to agile development, where iteration of builds is the dominant paradigm. In agile development, the team goes through the whole requirements (build/integrate/test cycle) with the goal of solving the greatest [...]

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How to Succeed as an Internal Consultant

Friday, August 5th, 2011in Innovation, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

Guest Post by Scott Elliott, Principal of Techzecs LLC. www.techzecs.com You know who you are: you work in an enterprise at a staff level. Maybe you are called a Manager or Director in a matrixed organization, but with no direct reports. You have little spending authority or position power. You may not realize it but [...]

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Schedule Prediction Accuracy – Anticipating Problems to Deliver On Time

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011in Predictive Metrics, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

What’s New? Measuring schedules is not new, but using a simple graphical tool that allows you to quickly monitor performance to the initial plan and check key drivers that can take you off course is a technique that is new to many organizations. This tool allows project teams to anticipate problems before they occur and [...]

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Affinity Diagrams – Seeing What Matters

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011in Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” What’s New? The affinity diagram is a graphical technique for seeing patterns and reaching a consensus in a group process that builds up from the details into a complete picture that provides insight based on facts. This diagram, which consists [...]

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Jump Starting Teams

Sunday, July 24th, 2011in Process, by / 0 Comments

What’s New? New programs spin up every day, but most teams get off to a bad start. In a rush to get going, they forego a few simple steps that would help position their programs for success. What’s new is a simple nine-step process that will ensure that teams quickly establish a firm foundation from [...]

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Getting Projects Back on the Rails

Sunday, July 24th, 2011in Book, Process, TCGen, by / 0 Comments

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Darrow What’s New? Rarely does a project go from start to completion without changes occurring along the way – both anticipated and unanticipated. Even with the best efforts to anticipate and mitigate project [...]

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Agile Management – Not an Oxymoron

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011in Book, Innovation, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

Heraclitus: “Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow” What’s New? With the trends towards mobility, software as a service and cloud based computing, there is a need to accelerate the development cycle, with a key focus on the front end where the core feature set is defined.  It [...]

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