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  • A Career of Significant Project Management Lessons Learned

    It’s about Management Control and Quality The following is a list of project management lessons learned that I have identified and documented. A project manager must not only be responsible, but accountable, for the project. Conduct business with high ethics. Use Best Practices, tailored to the project. Prepare a complete activity/work or task breakdown, reviewed by…

  • There are a Variety of Specifications Presented Throughout the Industry to Capture Requirements.

    The requirements document (specification), the result of analysis, sets the stage for the entire and/or any process/phase/activity (design, implementation, etc.) within the development process or life cycle. It is a configuration identification document as well as the design specification/document. The requirements document contains functional/capability, design, interface, data, and other product (software/application/system) requirements. Although it is…

  • Management and Ethics

    Management and ethics for business and projects has to be a number one priority for many companies going into 2010 and the 21st Century, but first several issues have to be addressed. Over the past several months, I have had discussions about, and received emails, related to individuals being assigned as project and software configuration…

  • Software/Firmware Configuration Management (Within the System Development Process)

    Eddie R. Williams, PMP Book Title: Software/Firmware Configuration Management (Within the System Development Process)..(click to order) Subtitle: Management Control & Quality Published: December 2001 Being an IT professional for over 20 years and now a published author, I became very concerned about the high failure rate of projects within the IT industry. I had worked…

  • Software Vendors and Their Tools/Applications

    Now after knowing the process, hopefully it allows you to make a better selection of products to automate and make the development process more efficient. It begins with requirements (which can’t be over emphasized). For some time we have had software vendors developing Computer Aided Software/System Engineering (CASE), applications, and tools for processes (i.e., Project…

  • Software/Firmware Configuration Management…

    Best practice processes, yes, have been around for a while in aerospace, department of defense, and commercial environments. Such organizations as the Electronic Industries Association (EIA), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Department of Defense (DOD), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have collaborated in the past and continue their…

  • Program and Project Success is about Team Success and Lessons Learned

    2009 is at an end and 2010 has begun with a lot of activity. What lessons learned will we take into 2010 and into the 21st century? September 11, 2001 (9/11) and some other unethical business activities have affected industries recovery but we all realize that before 9/11 many businesses were having some financial difficulties, mergers and lay…

  • IT Certifications. Do Certifications Have Value?

    A question I receive consistently when making a presentation on IT certifications. Do certifications have value? How can being Certified Benefit Me? There are certifications in most technologies and disciplines, collectively hundreds. Provided here is a list of several types of Certifications: PMP – Project Management Professional MCSE – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer CNE -…

  • There are many tools and applications that automate Configuration Management?

    I use/used several for version control, architecture/scheme development, developers/engineers development environment, problem/bug tracking and auditing reporting. The Professional Facilitator: While there are many tools and applications for software control, many of them do not start with configuration management. As the question shows configuration management is not fully addressed (configuration identification, which begins with requirements (functional…

  • We really are losing Valuable Resources and a Knowledge Base!

    At a recent social gathering of IT professionals and executives, one of the individuals stated that he was retiring next week and planned to enjoy the rest of his life with his family, fishing, and maybe exercising as he smiled looking at me (he knew my exercising routine). We all thought this was great. The…

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