Just a place to write
Reading PMThink! I have discovered this tool: liquidplanner, it has allowed me to discover how a tool facilitates the management of the concepts handled in this kind of management. I like: It’s a SaaS and all its advantages, It’s not only a planner, it allows you to add documentation, collaborate through discussions. Each task is … Read more
During this week I have had the opportunity to assist to a Server Virtualization conference. I would like to emphasize some considerations the speakers mentioned: Before to virtualize a server you should perform an application analysis before the infrastructure analysis. Why? First, applications are much more constrained during virtualization from support perspective. Second, when virtualizing … Read more
Imagine a big company where they have a huge PMO with a large amount of projects. Some group of PMs feel that they are doing good projects but they are not getting enough profit in these projects. Why? mainly because the resources they can hire are limited in the market and because there is a … Read more
In the mid 1980’s software had become an increasingly larger part of weapons systems and many products. The U.S. DoD was strongly dissatisfied with the outcomes of weapons development projects. This gave rise to the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the first Capability Maturity Model (CMM) funded by the DoD.As consequence of all of this, … Read more
We are providing IT services at application level to our customers. This has been the typical IT Service where earned value has always measure with the # of resolved items divided between # hours charged to the budget. After to do a big internal work on the resources to point their attention on the business … Read more
Reading some of the games explained by Ed Yourdon, I found this interview where he does a quick review to this tendency in the software industry. Unglaublich!!
Something I didn´t found in PMBOK and Rita Mulcahy’s book about this method: Critical chain project management uses buffer management instead of earned value management to assess the performance of a project. Critical chain method adds the large amounts of safety time to activities in project buffers to protect due-date performance, and to avoid wasting … Read more
High Level Planning has to be done during the initiating phase of the project. Is this planning supposed to be ‘draft’? Just in the moment you show this schedule, you can find yourself negotiating the project schedule with management. As you are at the beginning of a project, you probably still don’t have all requirements … Read more
Reading about Rolling Wave Planning I would like to remember some basic links that have been useful: leadershipchamps.wordpress.com Managing Product Development Now I have a question, sometimes when I try to use this technique, I have some problems because my sponsor challenges me for more details in the complete plan, and my plan finalizes being … Read more
Uncontrolled changes in a project’s scope or Scope Creep is a risk in most projects. It can happen by a big amount of reasons but the main it’s not being aware of it. So, I would like to review some tips about how to take care about it: Initiation Scope Management starts before the project … Read more