A previous blog entry introduced the notion of tracking the position and speed of a software engagement rather than only the position. This post focuses on lessons one can learn from tracking the speed, and how this concept and some associated tools can be a very powerful help in Project Management.
While the position, or progress, of a [...]
Software lore is rife with Project Management analogies. One of my favorite compares tracking a software project to navigating the ocean by dead reckoning. Two commonalities emerge:
if you don’t know where you go, you don’t know when you get to your destination, and
if you don’t track your progress, you don’t know which way you are [...]
I was invited to share some of our experience at the Informs Practice conference in Baltimore last month, more specifically on our methodology work to support successful implementations of decisioning systems.
Informs Practice is one of two annual conferences of Informs, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. A group extremely vested in building strategic [...]