Comments on: Lean Project Blog 50 Posts and Growing http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2009/04/25/941/ The magazine for the project age Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:20:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Josh Nankivel http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2009/04/25/941/comment-page-1/#comment-20918 Josh Nankivel Mon, 11 May 2009 02:55:43 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/?p=941#comment-20918 Thanks for pointing us to this Hal! I somehow had missed Coaches Corner, but I will be spending a lot of time there now! Josh Nankivel <a href="http://pmStudent.com" rel="nofollow">pmStudent.com</a> Thanks for pointing us to this Hal! I somehow had missed Coaches Corner, but I will be spending a lot of time there now!

Josh Nankivel
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]]> By: Hal http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2009/04/25/941/comment-page-1/#comment-20910 Hal Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:17:55 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/?p=941#comment-20910 Glen, I passed along your kudos. Thanks! Glen, I passed along your kudos. Thanks!

]]> By: Glen B. Alleman http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2009/04/25/941/comment-page-1/#comment-20909 Glen B. Alleman Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:57:53 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/?p=941#comment-20909 Lean Project blog is a great find. Although we're not in the construction business, many of the "make ready" processes are identical to the Plan of the Week for A&D projects. As well the PPC is mandated by DoD guidelines. If these two concepts alone were incorporated into IT projects I'd conjecture the failure rate would drop dramatically. I say this from personal experience of being on both sides (commerical IT and A&D software intensive). The critical success factor for A&D is the Integated Master Schedule (IMS) derived from the Integrated Master Plan (IMP), which describes how the maturity of the deliverables is increased with the completion of each work package. This paradigm is mandated by DoD on any progam >$20M. Lean Project blog is a great find. Although we’re not in the construction business, many of the “make ready” processes are identical to the Plan of the Week for A&D projects. As well the PPC is mandated by DoD guidelines.
If these two concepts alone were incorporated into IT projects I’d conjecture the failure rate would drop dramatically. I say this from personal experience of being on both sides (commerical IT and A&D software intensive).
The critical success factor for A&D is the Integated Master Schedule (IMS) derived from the Integrated Master Plan (IMP), which describes how the maturity of the deliverables is increased with the completion of each work package. This paradigm is mandated by DoD on any progam >$20M.

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