Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. There is No Such Thing as Free.

Performance Measurement 28

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 28

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. At the end of the benchmarking period, everyone in the aerospace group were hugging and congratulating each other after the results appeared showing how good they thought they were in project management.

Aerospace 59

Aerospace Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 59

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Modeling is at the heart of Program Planning and Controls. It's the Planning and Controls processes working together with the Technical Development processes that provide the ability to forecast what should happen in the future if we keep going like we are going now using a Model of the possible future outcomes.

Aerospace 41

Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The origins of this paper came about at a recent JSCC meeting here in Boulder, with local Aerospace contractors, the DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency) and several government agencies (NRO and NASA). Risk-Adjusted Plans. Plans for Increasing Maturity of the Deliverables. Create a Risk Tolerant Technical Approach and Plan.

Aerospace 37

Aerospace Estimate Governance Government 37

Herding Cats

AUGUST 12, 2016

Inadequate accessment of risk and unmitigated exposure to these risks with proper handling plans. Unanticipated Technical issues with alternative plans and solutions to maintain effectiveness. Unrealistic performance expectations missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Estimate 2003 Aerospace 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2017

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods.

2010 28

2010 2007 Estimate Aerospace 28

Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Aerospace/. 68% use the project plan documentation. Unrealistic schedule/reactive planning. Top 5 PPM Functions: Portfolio tracking & performance monitoring – 75%. Portfolio planning, resource allocation , and schedule – 66%. Top 5 PPM Priorities: Improve resource planning & forecasting – 65%.

2015 60

2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60