Over the next five days, I will share a collection of materials I've developed and applied as a program performance management consultant.
Even experienced project managers are not immune to common reasons for project failure. Poor time and budget performance, inability 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 a collection of conference presentations, white papers, book chapters, and journal articles on topics developed over four decades of managing projects and programs in various domains. 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 project's success.
Building the Perfect Schedule
Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
The pursuit of operational effectiveness is seductive because it is concrete and actionable. Caught up in the race for operational effectiveness, many managers simply do not understand the need for a strategy - Dr. Michael E. Porter - Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Project Strategy
Project Strategy is an overachieving set of guidelines to be used by the project in making decisions and taking action in alignment with corporate, business,
- Projects
- ERP, PDM, CRM, and EDM system critical success factors (CSF) significantly impact the project's success or failure.
- Strategy for Increasing the Probability of Project Success
- Strategy is a plan of action to achieve a particular Goal. Without identified goals, strategy has no purpose.
- Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls
- How to distinguish the difference between Open-Loop Control and Closed Loop Control and why this is important when discussing project management, software development, and making estimates in those domains.
- Increasing Your Project's Probability of Success
- Glen B. Alleman, Microsoft Project Conference, September 14-17, 2009
- Influences of IT Strategy - how strategy impacts the development of systems based on Commerical Off The Shelf Products
- 10 Steps to Chartering the Project
- derived from "10 Project Chartering Tips," Baseline, HTTP://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/10-Project-Chartering-Tips
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Glen B. Alleman and Steve Garfien - Performance Based Planning manages a portfolio of projects with unstable funding, emerging requirements, and deliverables and resource dependencies to provide actionable information in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.
- Improving DOE Project Performance Using the DOD Integrated Master Plan 12481
, Glen B. Alleman and Michael R. Nosbisch, Waste Management Symposium Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2012.
- Successful Digital Transformation starts with a well-defined Executable Strategy for Success
, San Diego PMI, 11 July 2018.
- Mission Engineering
, IPMD Webinar Improving Program and Project Management, National Defense Industry Association, 26 July 2021.
- Ten Rules for Common Sense Program Management
?- These ten rules are guided by the work of Col. Lee Battle (USAF), director of the Corona / Discover satellite system.
Capabilities-Based Planning (CBP)
- Capability-Based Planning for Enterprise Services
- Capability-based planning fits naturally with Strategy Based Planning and Business Process Improvement, May 2005
- From Needed Capabilities to Project Deliverables - On Time, On Budget, On Specification
- Capabilities-Based Planning for Enterprise Projects
, PM Summit - Capabilities-Based Planning is the capabilities needed to accomplish the mission or fulfill a business strategy. Only when capabilities are defined can we start with requirements
- Capabilities Based Planning
- defining what Done looks like for needed Capabilities through Accomplishments and their Criteria in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers starts with a Plan.
- How to Build a Credible Concept of Operations and Use it to Derive Capabilities and Features
- a ConOps is a user-oriented document that describes the characteristics of a proposed system from the User's point of view - Thomas J. Coonce and Glen B. Alleman.
- Showing How to Increase the Probability of Project Success by applying the Five Immutable Principles of Project Success in Under Four Hours
- Glen B. Alleman - GoGoAir Business Aviation, 12 July 2019.
- Agile Program Management Process
- Applying Agile principles, practices, and processes to build the Release Plan for each program event and deliverables for that review
- 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success
?- Project Performance Management, The Rocky Flats Story of?Making the Impossible Possible
- Capabilities Based Planning
, ... involves a functional analysis of operational requirements. Capabilities are identified based on the tasks required... Once the required capability inventory is defined, the most cost-effective and efficient options to satisfy the requirements are sought.”
Electronic Document Management Systems
- Electronic Document Management Tutorial - The Functional Architecture of an EDM System in the Process and Manufacturing Industries
- EDM/PDM Implementation
- Glen B. Alleman, Kalthoff User Forum Spring 1998, March 25 1998.
- EDM Systems, In Depth Review
- Kalthoff University 301, 501, 19 September 1997
- EDMS Track - Selecting the Right EDM/PDM Vendor
, TU 301, Monday, March 10th, 1997.
- Electronic Document Management in the Process Industry
- Glen B. Alleman, March 9, 1997.
- Using EDMS in the Process Industry for Competitive Advantage
- Glen B. Alleman, Monday, September 23rd, 1996, TU-701.
- Electronic Document Management Tutorial
- The Functional Architecture of an EDM Systems in the Process and Manufacturing Industries
CMMI + Agile + Program Management
- Incorporating Risk Management in the Planning Process
, risk management ranges from political risks of the project's outcomes to supplier risks, to technical failure of a product in the marketplace.
- Integrating CMMI and Agile - Integration
?- "to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole."
- Program Management Office, Agile Software Development, Lean / 6?? - All Living in Harmony
- Agile at Scale for FAR 34.2 / DFARS 234.2 Acquisition Programs
- Integrating Agile Software Development on Earned Value Management Programs starting with EIA-748E
- Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems
, Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016.
- Estimating and Reporting Physical Percent Complete on Agile Projects
, DHS Cost Analysis Stakeholder Working Group, July 26, 2017
- Agile Lifecycle Product Roadmap, Release Plan, Roles and Responsibilities, Epics, Features, Stories, and Tasks
, the core concepts of a Release Based development cycle for agile projects.
- Agile Program Management Process Flow
, Starting with the development of a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimate of work and duration, creating a Product Roadmap and Release Plan.
- How Should We Estimate Agile Software Development Projects and What Data Do We Need?
, Glen B. Alleman and Thomas J. Coonce, International Cost Estimating & Analysis Association, 2017 Professional Development and Training Workshop, Portland OR.
- Integrating CMMI and Agile
- Is Agile Project Management Actually Systems Engineering?
- Systems Engineering ensures the whole product works together with its external systems to meet the needs of the customer.
- Monte Carlo Simulation and Estimating Traditional and Agile Development
- Monte Carlo Simulation and some related approaches can be the basis for making informed decisions in the presence of uncertainty.
White Papers, Essays, and Journal Papers
These White Papers cover a wide range of topics while I was and still am engaged in delivering outcomes. Ranging from software development, software and systems management, management of the project in several different domains, electronics document management, risk management, work breakdown structures, and science and math topics applied to solving complex problems
Software Technology
Project Management
- Inversion of Control
- The Impedance Mismatch in Integrated Engineering Design Systems.
- Options-Based Agile Decision Processes How to Apply “Real Options” Theory to the Deployment of ERP
- Managing the Deployment of ERP Systems in the Publishing Domain
- Can Earned Value Save Government Projects?
- The Gardening Analogy for Project Management
- Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
- Glen B. Alleman - Nilan-Sanders Associates 2002
- The Basis of Project Success
- 16 December 2009
- Comments on "Managing Project Involving External Threats"
in American Society of Project Managers
- The Basis of the Five Immutable Principles
, in Building Project Management into a Mission-Critical Endeavor in Public Manager, 2019
- 20 Reasons Managers Fail and Ways to Fix Them
Inversion of Control
- The Impedance Mismatch in Integrated Engineering Design Systems.
- Options-Based Agile Decision Processes How to Apply “Real Options” Theory to the Deployment of ERP
- Managing the Deployment of ERP Systems in the Publishing Domain
- Can Earned Value Save Government Projects?
- The Gardening Analogy for Project Management
- Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
- Glen B. Alleman - Nilan-Sanders Associates 2002
- The Basis of Project Success
- 16 December 2009
- Comments on "Managing Project Involving External Threats"
in American Society of Project Managers
- The Basis of the Five Immutable Principles
, in Building Project Management into a Mission-Critical Endeavor in Public Manager, 2019
- Simple, Isn't Really Simple
, failure of large systems is caused by the inability to rapidly adapt to changing environments.
- Agile Project Management and "Normative" Paradigms
- From Arms Race to Green Space: PPM at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
- What is System Architecture and Why Do We Care?
- Agile Project Management Methods for ERP - How to Apply Agile Processes to Complex COTS Projects and Live to Tell About It
?- XP/Agile Universe, 2002, Chicago Il, August 4 - 7, 2002, pp. 70-88, LNCS 2418, Don Wells and Laurie Willams editors.
- Agile Project Management Methods Meet Earned Value Management
, Glen B. Alleman and Michael Henderson, Agile Development, June 25-28, 2003, Salt Lake City
- 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success
- all successful projects adhere to five immutable principles
- "A Cure For Unanticipated Cost and Schedule Growth
," Thomas J. Coonce and Glen B. Alleman.
- Capabilities Based Planning
- Information Technology Risk Management
- The Concept of Risk, Its Management, and the Benefits to an IT Project, Glen Alleman, 2002
- Increasing the Probability of Program Success
?- Cost and schedule growth and technical shortfalls for any project or program are created when there are:?1. Unrealistic technical performance expectations,?2. Unrealistic cost and schedule estimates,?3. Inadequate risk assessments, and?4. Unanticipated technical issues, all based on poorly performed and inefficient risk management.
- Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline
?- The Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) is a time-phased network of scheduled activities describing the work to be performed, the budgeted cost for this work, the organizational elements that produce the deliverables from this work, and the performance measures showing this work is proceeding according to plan.
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success
?- Principles are the Basis of Practices and Process for Project Success - Successfully managing any project, Capital projects, Software Intensive System of Systems projects, or home garden ? project success starts with Five Immutable Principles of success, listed to the right.
- Connecting IT and Business Value
, Connecting IT and Business Value by Defining the Intangible Benefits through the Balanced Scorecard.
- Exception Handling in CORBA Environments
?- The Late Introduction of Distributed Exception Handling in Java CORBA-Based COTS Application.
- Is There an Underlying Theory of Software Project Management?
?- A critique of the transformational and normative views of project management. Traditional project management methods are based on scientific principles considered “normal science” but lack a theoretical basis for this approach.
Earned Value Management
Risk Management
- The Impact of Reducible and Irreducible Uncertainty on the Probability of Program Success
- Incorporating Risk Management in the Planning Process
—In the project management domain, risk management covers addressing the political risks of a project’s outcome, the risks of a supplier failing to deliver on time, the technical failure of a product in the marketplace, and the nearly endless possibilities that could disrupt the path to success.
- Schedule Risk Management
- "One of the major intellectual triumphs of the modern world is the transformation of risk from a matter of fate to an area of study." In Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein, John Wiley & Sons, 1998
- Building a Risk Tolerant Schedule
- incorporating risk management in a visible manner provides governance of the project's technical and programmatic performance.
- Information Technology Risk Management - Installment 1: The Concept of Risk
- Information Technology Risk Management - Installment 2: Pre-Development Risks
- The Impact of Reducible and Irreducible Uncertainty on the Probability of Program Success
, Glen B. Alleman, Rick A. Price, and Thomas A. Coonce, Joint Space Cost Council, Scheduler's Forum, 2018.
- Building a Risk Tolerant IMS
, Safran Risk Roadshow, McClean, VA June 23, 2015.
- Building a Risk Tolerant IMS
- Using Earned Value to manage the risk of a project in terms of risk-adjusted physical performance.
- 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
- Building Risk Tolerance into Program Plan and Schedule
- Managing Risk as Opportunity
- with uncertainty comes opportunity. Good risk management is not about fear of failure, it is about removing barriers to success.
- Lunch and Learn: Risk Management on a Well-Known Project
, PMI Lakeshore Chapter, 14 September 2014
- Building a Risk Tolerant Schedule
?- Technical and programmatic disruptions in project plans don’t need to negatively impact cost, performance, or schedule metrics.
- Managing Risk as Opportunity
?- with uncertainty comes opportunity. But if a project manager is consumed with managing the risks, there is little time to manage the opportunities.
- Information Technology Risk Management
?- The Concept of Risk, Its Management, and Benefits to an IT Project.
- Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces with Apologies to Jack
?- Managing Cost, Schedule and Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis of Good Project Management.
- Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects
?- Risk management is essential for the success of any significant project. Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often unknown until the project is underway.
- ?Calling BS
- reading Do I Make Myself Clear where he speaks about use and missed of language.
- ?Capabilities Based Planning
- over the years the success rate of traditional project management methods applied to software development projects has been underwhelming.
Programmatic Risk Management in PM Weekly
Strategy
Work Breakdown Structure
Essays on Science, Math, and Project Management
Science and Math
Software Development
