Project/Program management best practices for success in any industry!

Where are our success? Although there have been improvements, more than 60% of projects/programmes failed, and many were canceled in 2003 (ref: The Standish chaos report)! It is our objective for 2004 and, in addition to contributing to a 60% and better, the project/programme success rate! STOP THE MADNESS-MANAGE AND CONTROL PROJECTS

WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Best practice processes for Project/Programme Success (Outline):

The program/project management (Business Management) (Integration)

Use of experience and knowledge (Integration)

Planning and scheduling/WBS (scope/time/costs)

Message scheduling (communications)

Status & earned value reporting (communications)

Performance (metrics) reporting (communications)

Risk identification and management (risks)

Project Repository/DB (message/lessons learned/Knowledge Transfer)

Change Management (Integration)

Subcontractor/supplier checks (purchases)

Team building (human resources)

The development process (Integration and solution/scope)

The selection of appropriate model/technique (e.g. interactive, waterfall, Spiral, evolutionary object-oriented, structured)

The selection of appropriate implementation method (e.g., MSF, RUP, GXP, DOD-STD-2167 and other standards)

Selection, if required, to use rapid development

Rapid application development/joint application development (RAD/JAD)

Prototypes and models

Interviews and simplified sessions

Cooperation

Selection of technical and project reviews

Selection of development and support tools and applications

Configuration Manager (Integration/scope/Control) (described in the book "Software and Firmware configuration management", marketing package "management control and quality".)

Configuration id

Configuration control software application, Firmware (embedded Software and systems)

Configuration Status accounting

Configuration audits

Quality assurance (Integration/quality control)

Verification

Validation

Test

Some of the organisations that support these practices and certifications to their professional skills recognised in many industries are: Project Management Institute (PMI), American Management Association (AMA), Software Engineering Institute (SEI), the Electronic Industries Association (EIA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) international organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the Department of Defense (DOD).