[unrev-II] Project Management

From: Rod Welch (rowelch@attglobal.net)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 10:56:39 PST

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    Jack,

    The exigencies of project management, referenced in your letter today, came up
    during the meeting at SRI on 001017....

    http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/00/10/17/160043.HTM#L321204

    ...and in particular...

    http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/00/10/17/160043.HTM#L321271

    As in marriage, there is no perfect solution to projects, but experience
    indicates some approaches offer a better chance to succeed....

    http://www.welchco.com/03/00050/01/09/01/02/00030.HTM#1113

    KM combines AI, Cognitive Science, TQM and sound management practice. Project
    Management has developed a body of knowledge published by ISO and PMI that
    formalizes good management. There are two factors, however, that hamper
    implementation: time and biology. Information overload reduces the time
    available for good management. Human biology wires all of us to respond
    spontaneously, for example this email is spontaneous. Even when we have time
    for review and planning, we have to fight our inner selves (called diligence,
    discipline) to use that time for analysis, alignment, summary, organization,
    i.e., adding "intelligence" to information, in order to create useful knowledge,
    because the rewards of planning are deferred, which is at war with the short
    term perspective to "expedite." It's a dilemma.

    Project audits, also discussed on 001017, provide a chance for budgeting time
    and dollars to perform good management, but this is an uphill effort because
    people do not have the tools and skills to augment innate capabilities for
    dealing with information overload. Further, people lack a process for
    incorporating notices, like your letter today, into the work stream. Put it all
    together and you get KM, i.e., tying experience and communication, to action.
    We can say it a thousand ways, for example, academics discuss semiotics in
    relation to inference, meaning and communication. Others speak of continual
    learning, and so on. Bottom line, it takes tools, skills and leadership, per
    NWO...

    http://www.welchco.com/03/00050/01/09/03/02/03/0309.HTM#6369

    In any event, good article on PM. Thanks for keeping after this.

    Rod

     

    Jack Park wrote:
    >
    > http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-31-001-05-CD
    > <http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-31-001-05-CD>
    >
    > There are two words which don't get much play in Linux development projects:
    > Requirements and Design. Not surprisingly, it is the lack of these two
    > things which causes most of the problems in open-source software. Too many
    > developers in the Linux space start programming before they have a good idea
    > of what their project functions and capabilities are. In other words, they
    > start in the middle, not at the beginning.
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