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Glen B. Alleman
Performance-Based Project Management® in software intensive system of system
Interests: Earned Value, Risk, Cost, Program Performance, Integrated Master Plan, Integrated Master Schedule.
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When Space and Defense crashed in the late 1970s in Southern California, I was fortunate to move to another domain and work for a person and his firm, where I learned much about process safety management. I came there from... Continue reading
Posted May 20, 2024 at Herding Cats
"The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that... one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they... Continue reading
Posted Jan 17, 2023 at Herding Cats
White papers covering a wide range of topics while engaged in delivering outcomes. Ranging from software development, software and systems management, management of the project in several different domains, electronic document management, risk management, work breakdown structures, and science and... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2023 at Herding Cats
Earn value Management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project performance and process in an objective manner. EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. It's notable for its... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2023 at Herding Cats
Building, deploying, and executing an IMP/IMS requires a change in the conventional paradigm of project planning and controls and the management processes. This chain starts by measuring progress as the completion of accomplishment criteria in the fulfillment of significant accomplishments.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2023 at Herding Cats
The Immutable Principles of Project Success Leading on the Edge & Managing IT Departments - following the principles of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition Project Breathalyzer - asking and answering the breathalyzer test questions every week keeps the project team, management,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2023 at Herding Cats
Risk Management is essential for the success of any significant project. All project risl comes from uncertainty - Epistemic uncertanty which is the lack of knowledge, handled by buying knowledge to reduce the risk. And Aleatory uncertainty, which is a... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2023 at Herding Cats
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. John Maynard Keynes Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2023 at Herding Cats
The Hearding Cats News Letter has a 5 part series on Agile Program Management. Agile Program Management Part 1 of 5 - Moving from Principles to Practice Agile Program Management Part 2 of 5 - Details of Agile Program Management... Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2023 at Herding Cats
”A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.” ― John Ruskin Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2022 at Herding Cats
This quote appeared in Skeptical Science as an environmental philosophy articulated in an ancient Native American proverb: Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do... Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2022 at Herding Cats
These 10 tips come from a Baseline magazine article. But in the article, there were no substantial actions or expected outcomes. Starting with the 10 tips, here's how to put them to work. Step 1 – Make it a Two-Stage... Continue reading
Posted Sep 8, 2022 at Herding Cats
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Measures of Effectiveness (MoE) Operational measures of success that are closely related to the achievements of the mission or operational objectives evaluated in the operational environment, under a specific set of conditions. Measures of Effectiveness: Are stated in units meaningful... Continue reading
Posted Sep 7, 2022 at Herding Cats
The growing importance of quickly and affordably delivering software intensive systems requires programs to swiftly react to changing demands of the operational environment and has led to an increased focus on capability-based planning and iterative product development. Capability based planning... Continue reading
Posted Jul 29, 2022 at Herding Cats
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. — Hannah Arendt Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2022 at Herding Cats
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2022 at Herding Cats
"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings." - Robert Benchley Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2022 at Herding Cats
21 Suggestions for Success – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2022 at Herding Cats
Adopt the Pace of Nature: Her Secret is Patience - Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2022 at Herding Cats
The tyranny of requirements is independent of the project management methodology “If someone is trying to contract for a system, and they can properly identify all the necessary ‘requirements’, then it makes sense to do so. The preference then usually... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2022 at Herding Cats
The tyranny of requirements is independent of the project management methodology “If someone is trying to contract for a system, and they can properly identify all the necessary ‘requirements’, then it makes sense to do so. The preference then usually... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2022 at Herding Cats
Qui enim teneat causas rerum futurarum, idem necesse est omnia teneat quae futura sint. Quod cum nem… – Cicero,De Divinatione, Liber primus, LVI, 127 [Roughly, He who knows the causes will understand the future, except no-one but god possesses such... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2022 at Herding Cats
I am used to thinking three or four months in advance, about what I must do, and I calculate on the worst. If I take so many precautions, it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance.... Continue reading
Posted May 22, 2022 at Herding Cats
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” - Alexander Pope Continue reading
Posted May 21, 2022 at Herding Cats
Our institutions are failing because they are disobeying laws of effective organization which their administrators do not know about, to which indeed their cultural mind is closed, because they contend that there exists and can exist no science competent to... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2022 at Herding Cats