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quarta-feira, 7 de março de 2018

SECURITY: The visible face of your projects could be the wrong one

Customer are always important but some customers and its projects will need additional care. Sometimes the visible face of your work gets into the news and this is good. Unless the news are bad, or even worse, are incorrect.

Only then you'll probably be aware that sometimes it is just not a matter of being the best in business and let your technical (and management) competency excel.
It's a matter of surviving what it is being said about your work, the way you got your contract, the way you delivered your work, the way you could get the blame for issues that are not part of the scope of your work and so on. It's then that you'll have to have your executive management support (to shield you from the outer world interferences and to manage communication with that outer world).

The oddest experience I've ever had was having to work with a point of contact that was to help us execute a specific project and from minute one his intentions were to undermine the project's success. I had 20+ years of experience in the software industry, and in my innocence, I was thinking I had nothing more to learn. I was so wrong,

What if the visible face of your project start to be in the news? The news could be correct and/or incorrect; presenting sensitive data and/or confidential data (that no one knows who's disclosing). Your competition could be interested in it. Internal stakeholders could be interested in it (feeling "invaded"). Reporters could be getting it all wrong. It can get messy...

Some examples (in PT, sorry guys):
Maybe some more can be told on this topics later on. Lessons learned are for sure more useful if properly shared. And you bet that we've managed to deliver successfully that particular [migration] project.

Revisions: 2018-03 - updated links. 2018-04 - added the "drop money out of the window" link.
PS: Additional info or how to not execute a "data migration" project:



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sexta-feira, 11 de março de 2016

About Earned-Value Management (EVM)

The topic here is Software Development, but with time you'll learn that a team without management will under-perform (and this is more true for large teams).

Sometimes, if you're a software engineer (or product assurance engineer) you'll be on progress meetings where the project performance is being reviewed and some strange acronyms will start being referred (CPI, SPI, etc.).
Some of these are Earned-Value Management Indicators (EVM Indicators). What are these? Google will tell you. For now I'll just share with you these neat cheat sheets and/or summaries:

There are also good books for a jump start on these topics:
  • Project Management for Dummies (Stanley / Portny): Amazon.

PS. For a description of WISE EVM indicators please read the WISE Project Module Guidebook (INTERNAL). Examples of how they are shown internally to PMs can be seen here (INTERNAL).




PS. EVM is NOT enough for Project Monitoring and Control for certain levels of maturity as required by the Capability Maturity Model (CMMI). We'll need more on our QMS. More on this later on. One of these days.

(2016-05-12: Added book, WISE GBK, screenshot; 2017-05-02: shortened URL, minor rephrases)
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