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#301 – EARNED VALULE MANAGEMENT(EVM) CAN IMPROVE LARGE IT PROJECT MEASUREMENT PERFORMANCE – JOHN AYERS

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Studies show approximately 97 percent of organizations are now practicing agile development methods. Agile is very popular. Measurement performance has been and still is lacking for large IT projects. Texas bill (HB) 3275 (2017) requires state agencies to improve measuring and monitoring of large IT projects.  IT project performance measurement is getting attention. Continue reading →

#301 – GREATEST RISK FACTOR FOR THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH – ALLEN TAYLOR

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In the 14 October 2020 issue of the medical journal, Biogerontology, Leonard Hayflick published an opinion piece titled “The greatest risk factor for the leading cause of death is ignored.” Hayflick is renowned for many important discoveries made over a long career. Perhaps he is best known for his discovery of the so-called “Hayflick Limit,” which contradicted the received wisdom at the time that he made it. Continue reading →

#300 – QUALITY RISK IS A MAJOR REASON FOR PROJECT FAILURES – JOHN AYERS

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My contention is management many times compromises quality to mitigate budget and cost issues resulting in a major risk to the project.

How to minimize the quality risk on a project is addressed in this paper. The approach to do this is based on my 30 years of project and project risk management experience and knowledge. Let’s start with a story to illustrate my contention. Continue reading →

#300 – ASSOCIATION OF FEDERAL ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT AND GUIDANCE 2020 SURVEY – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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This is the sixth survey on the status of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in federal agencies. The survey was conducted by the Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management and Guidance (1) The survey covers 37 federal agencies. This includes 15 cabinet agencies. Of the respondents, 14% have more than 50,000 employees, 22% have 10,000 – 50,000, 42% have 500 – 10,000 and 21% have less than 500 employees. Continue reading →

#300 – SMOKE ALARMS: HOW TO BECOME MORE PROACTIVE – ANDREW SHEVES

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Many people have a few smoke alarms dotted around their house and, to me, these are some of the most straightforward set-it-and-forget-it risk management tools you can get. You set these up and then…nothing. You can forget about them until that annoying ‘chirp’ sound wakes you up one night, telling you to change the battery.

And most people will never hear their smoke alarm go off except for those times that their cooking gets a little out of hand. Continue reading →