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NEW WEBINAR Overcoming the top three obstacles faced by young project managers in their first few years
From obstacles to triumphs
From obstacles to triumphs: A project manager’s early career roadmap
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If you are even thinking about enrolling in training, you need to watch my YouTube video Why selecting the wrong training course could cost you $1000s
Blog Archives
Creating outstanding project managers
The AI team take a deep dive into a project management course designed for young project managers with a few years experience seeking to advance their skills. The course uniquely emphasizes a systemic and systematic approach, integrating engineering and project management processes for both planning and execution. Key areas of focus include managing the quadruple constraints (scope, schedule, cost, and people) and applying systems thinking to overcome common challenges faced by young project managers. The curriculum, delivered online with supplementary textbooks, … Continue reading
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Creating outstanding systems engineers
The AI team take a deep dive into a systems engineering course designed to create outstanding systems engineers. The course uses a blended learning approach with online lectures, readings, exercises, and live Q&A sessions. It covers various aspects of systems engineering, including the system lifecycle, risk management, and problem-solving. The course emphasizes a systemic and systematic methodology and aims to improve participants’ systems and critical thinking abilities. The instructor is Dr. Joseph E. Kasser, a … Continue reading
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Does INCOSE Have Any Principles?
The AI team takes a deep dive into the 15 INCOSE Systems Engineering Principles and an iterative AI analysis of those principles. The AI team critique INCOSE for not defining principles, but stating ‘so-called’ principles as “transcendent truths” that explicitly avoid “how-to” methods, effectively turning engineering into philosophy. True engineering principles, such as Ohm’s Law, must be mathematical, predictive, and falsifiable. An analysis of the language in the 15 principles found that 89% of the … Continue reading
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Evolutionary project management: controlling risk by design
The AI team take a deep dive into a booklet by Niels Malotaux which introduces Tom Gilb’s Evolutionary Project Management (Evo), a method emphasizing proactive risk mitigation through iterative Plan-Do-Check-Act cycles. Evo integrates project, requirements, and risk management into result management, focusing on achieving customer satisfaction and success. The approach uses short cycles (TaskCycle, DeliveryCycle) to quickly identify and address problems, along with techniques like Active Synchronization and Planguage for requirements specification. Malotaux’s extensive project … Continue reading
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Extending the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) over the entire system lifecycle
The AI team takes a deep dive into a technical paper which critiques the traditional Technology Readiness Level (TRL) metric for its inability to predict future progress or address the later stages of a system’s life. By applying holistic thinking perspectives, the author argues for a shift from measuring static maturity to evaluating long-term technology availability. This approach introduces the dynamic TRL (dTRL), which utilizes historical data to forecast when a technology will actually be ready for integration. It is … Continue reading
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