Risks and strategy

The physical feasibility (e.g. technology, capacity or capability) is the primary source of risks. The management’s wrong judgment of the former is the second one.
From this premise, the Business Case should univocally establish the “owner” of the solution. Therefore, this declaration cannot be left the orphan .This means that level of the producing organization’ mastery of the technology / production’s process / capacity has to be indicated as one of the key elements on which the strategy has been [...]

Governance and fun

Templates are one of the most tangible things of the governance. They are conceived as the interfaces to operate the system. There are many sorts of tools for collecting data and release information. The

Vision and fun

The people are still the most important resource of the project. However, a project cannot be manned by a bunch [...]

Time-boxes and risk proximity

I’m reviewing the templates in order to complete the End stage/project and then move to the plans. This strategy is based on the need to offer the best of my competence. Therefore, plans are left at the end of the first series. They are the most discussed item in the project management.

The appeal of the [...]

Quality – template & application

The production of information within the project is a matter that is almost outreaching of the Project Manager capabilities. Any stakeholder is a source of production and a destination of data; therefore, the necessity of validating the data becomes of paramount importance. In fact, the credibility of the Project Manager depends upon the quality (reliability) of the information released with the official imprimatur. [...]

“Playing” communication – Configuration Item Management Register

Available Templates:

Configuration Item Management Register:

This document describes the logic of the process of storing any project’s product. The process of storing is mainly focused on the availability of the correct item. Therefore, this information is apt to understand both its readiness and the organizational aspects that produced it.

“Playing” communication

There is an excellent post about the [...]

Project Brief – 2.0 Communications

Tools like “IM” can increase the speed of transmission and then improve the sensation of mimicking a conversation; however, when the information is left to each person’s memory, it has lost most of its [...]

Benefit Review template

This template can be easily used for incremental approach in Agile style. In essence it helps to define the properties that will form the conditions of the functional tests. From my experience, this is essential for designing the “proof of concept”, it is especially true for the architecture (e.g. workload). [...]

The power of sharing the rules

Moreover, for who is working in a consultant position (i.e. Time & Material) the policy of dragging the problems through the continuous ignorance of the elephant under the carpet does not change the result. Some monies gained in this way are lost in terms of self respect and a sound professional [...]

Automation, humility and templates

There is a very amusing (and amazing as well) post about the seven capital sins of using automation for testing. In my yesterday’s post, automation had a huge importance. Therefore, the indications suggested by Colin, are to be taken with the utmost care.

In essence, the best solution against mistakes remains a good [...]

Gaining on data quality

The automatic data collection, based on a well designed unit-test (see this post ) needs the following steps:

A sound architectural design where services are neatly conceived for managing values and entities.
Collection requirements including boundary values (see Boundary values ). Thereby, the tests will be focused on the “critical” scenarios.
Developers able to work in a TDD [...]