Even experienced project managers are not immune to common reasons for project failure. Poor time and budget performance, failure to deal with complexity, and uncontrolled changes in scope can catch any project manager off guard. This collection of materials can help improve your project’s success rate.
Here's Part 2 of a collection of conference presentations, white papers, book chapters, and journal articles on topics developed over 4 decades of managing projects and programs in a variety of domains, where arriving on or before the needed time, at or below the needed cost, with the needed Capabilities to accomplish a mission or fulfill a strategy is necessary for the success of the project.
Agile Project Management
Agile Project Management is an iterative approach to planning and guiding project processes that breaks the work activities into smaller cycles (sprints in agile or iterations in traditional project management). Just as in Agile software development, an Agile project in any domain is completed in small sections, with the results of those outcomes informing the plans for the next iteration.
- Agiley Managing Requirements - a simple guide to requirements management in an agile organization
- Scrum Master Processes - 41 Tasks of the Scrum Master
- Integration of Program Performance Management with Agile Software Development - Starting with the Engineering Estimate, define the deliverables, the plan for their production, their deployment, any variance of effort and cost, and the corrective actions to keep the planned work on plan. These are activities for Program Controls of Scrum development projects based on Product Roadmaps, Release Plans, and measures of Physical Percent Complete at the Sprint level.
- Estimating and Managing Agile Projects at DHS - Thomas J. Coonce and Glen B. Alleman, DHS Cost Analysis Stakeholder Working Group
- Software for Our Minds - Patterns and Anti-Patterns for creating and maintaining a shared vision.
- Post-Normal Science and eXtreme Programming - How can we come to understand the impacts of eXtreme Programming and other Agile methods without scientific data?
- WSRI Agile Program Management Process - Applying agile principles, practices, and processes to the project, building the release plan for each program event in the Integrated Master Plan and deliverables for that review.
- Paradigm of Agile Project Management - when we say Agile in the absence of a Domain and Context, how can it have any meaning?
- Effective Use of Kanban in a Nutshell - Principles, Practices, and Processes of Kanban That Increase the Probability of Project Success
- Lightweight Processes - An Overview of Lightweight Development Processes and Selecting One For Your Projects - Lightweight processes are beginning to replace more formal methods.
- Agile Project Management and "Normative" Paradigms
- Agile Project Management Methods Meet Earned Value - Glen Alleman and Michael Henderson, Agile Development June 25-28, 2003, Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) provide valuable information for planning and controlling complex software development projects in high ceremony environments.
- Agile IT Project Management Methods, Glen B. Alleman, Chapter X in The Story of Managing Projects: A Global, Cross-Disciplinary Collection of Perspectives, DR. E. G. Carayannis and DR. Y. H. Kwak, Greenwood Process 2002
- A Workshop for Product Owners, Scrum Master, and Team Members for Improving Team Performance
- Agile Program Management - Moving from Principles to Practice - Solutions should always concentrate on the whole and not on assembling parts - Christopher Alexander, 1979
- Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive Systems of Systems (SiS), - If we're looking to increase the probability of success for Software Intensive System of Systems, look to where that effort can produce the highest return for the investment, Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016.
- Increasing Probability of Success for Complex System of Systems by Integration Systems Engineering, Agile Project Management with Program Performance Management?- Managing Complex System of Systems Subject to FAR 34.2 and DFARS 234.2 by Applying Agile at Scale
- Product & Process Development Kaizen for Software Development, Project, and Program Management, LPPDR, Denver Colorado, April 21-23, 2008
- When is Light Right?, XP Denver, Aprile 23rd, 2001
- Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment - Glen Alleman, Michael Henderson, CH2M Hill, and Ray Seggelke, Envision Technology, Agile Development, June 25-28, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Setting up the Agile Program for EVM Compliant Validation, using the Principles of Agile Systems Engineering, EVM World 2016.
- You Don't Need Agile to Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management - Bad Project Management is Just That Bad Project Management.
- Agile Program Management: Moving from Principles to Practice
- Blending Agile Development Methods with CMMI?
- CMMI and Agile, Joining Principles with Practice to Produce a Single Integrated System, PMI Professional Development Day, Grapevine, TX, June 23, 2011
Estimating Agile Software and Traditional Projects
Estimating is a critical part of project planning and controls, involving Quantitative processes to estimate cost, resources, duration, and technical performance.
- From Product Roadmap of Needed Capabilities to Release Plan, to Feature Breakdown Structure, to Credible Estimates, DHS Cost Analysis Stakeholder Working Group, Thomas J. Coonce and Glen B. Alleman
- Building a Risk-Adjusted Engineering Estimate and Executing the Risk-Adjusted Product Roadmap, the Risk-Adjusted Product Roadmap starts with Risk-Adjusted Engineering Estimates and the Resulting Rough Order of Magnitude Estimate
- How Should We Estimate Agile Projects and Measure Progress to Plan, Thomas J. Coonce, and Glen B. Alleman, Naval Center for Cost Analysis, Software and IT Cost Analysis Solutions, August 22, 2017
- Options-Based Agile Decision Processes - How to Apply "Real Options" Theory to the Development of ERP?- Agile Universe, 2002, Chicago Il, August 4 - 7, 2002.
- Calculating Physical Percent Complete for the PMB Using an Agile Tool, EVM Work 2017
- Basis of Estimate Training - Developing a Basis of Estimate is an Art and a Science
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), 5th Annual College of Scheduling, Chicago, May 4-7, 2008.
- Basis of Estimate Training - Developing a Basis of Estimate is an Art and a Science
- Paired Comparison Analysis - in paired comparison experiments, the worth or merit of a unit is measured through comparisons against other units
Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
The Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) is an important tool in earned value management used by Program Managers and Systems Engineers in the Technical Assessment Process to appraise a program’s technical progress.
- The Road to a Successful Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) with a Validated Earned Value Management System - The path to the IBR starts and ends with planning.
- Establish the Performance Measurement Baseline, AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline, Fort Worth PMI Symposium, 16 July 2010.
- Performance Measurement Baseline in a Nut Shell - 5 Principles That Increase the Probability of Project Success, Austin PMI Chapter Dinner, 24 April 2002
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), 5th Annual Conference, PMI College of Scheduling, 2008.
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (White Paper), 5th Annual Conference, PMI College of Scheduling, 2008.
- Cost and Schedule Integration: An Industry Update, 2nd Annual Acumen Sumit, September 18-19, 2012.
Managing Embedded Systems and Systems Architecture
Managing Software Intensive System and Systems (SISOS)
Planning and Scheduling
- Schedule Margin White Paper - the term schedule margin is a project management tool for dealing with schedule contingencies
- Concurrently Verifying and Validating the Critical Path and Margin Allocation Using Probabilistic Analysis - The critical path, the path with the lowest total float to project completion, should be validated to ensure the project can identify and actively manage the tasks that may have the largest impact on the completion date of the project.
- Building the Three-Tiered Schedule in Accordance with DOE IPMR 2018 - Building, deploying, and executing the Three-Tier Schedule requires a change in the conventional paradigm of project planning, controls, and management processes.
- 10 Best Practices of Scheduling - using the Schedule Assessment Guide: Practices for Project Schedules - GAO-16-89G, December 2015.
- Using a Cross Walk File to Manage Givers and Receivers, Ron Powell, Glen Alleman, and Risk Price, Joint Space Cost Council, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado, 21 September 2017.
- Time Box Scheduling - technology is not the strongest driver of productivity for a software project.
- Probabilistic Schedule and Cost Analysis - developing a resource-loaded, risk-tolerant, Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), derived from the Integrated Master Schedule clearly showing the increasing maturity of the program deliverables, through vertical and horizontal traceability to the program's requirements.
- Network Schedule Analysis - complying with DID 81650 and improving the probability of success.
- Event-Based Scheduling - planning the painting of the garage floor with the help of a 9 and 10-year-old.
- Event-Based Planning - Vertical planning provides visibility into the project's maturity rather than measures the passage of time.
- Critical Success Factors for Enterprise Projects - ERP, PDM, CRM, and EDM System critical success factors.
- Creating the Foundation for IT Project Portfolio Management at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
- Connecting the 5 Principles and the 5 Practices of Performance-Based Project Management? to Increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) - Both are needed, but neither work alone.
- Time to Do It Right, Tom Coonce and Glen Alleman, Octber 31 - November 2, 2016 IPM 2016
- Top Habits of Success Project Managers?- Delivering Value
- The Simple Problem of Schedule Performance Indices - Knowing how our project is performing means knowing how our Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance is performing according to Plan.
- Performance-Based Project Management?- Appling PerformanceBased Project in the DOE Order 413.3-9 Environment
- Building Teams Through Project Charters - chartering empowers team members individually and collectively.
- Paradigm of Managing Agile Software Development?- What does it mean when we say "Agile Development" depends on the domain and context of your work
- Mission Engineering, IPMDWeninar, Improving Program, and Project Management, National Defense Industry Association, 26 July 2021.
- The Nine "I's" of Program Success - For any program to succeed, there are Nine Integration activities that must be in place and connected, College of Performance Management, July 2013.
- 5 Immutable Principles of Projects Success, EcoSys User Conference, San Diego, 2013.
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