Update:

OK, the tikiwiki that this website is running on, is now successfully upgraded. (no more registration issues)

There are numerous improvements, but I like to point out one. On many places, as a logged in user, you can now tag content using the Folksonomy box located at the top right of this website. And we can all search using the tags.

In addition to the upgrade, I have moved the website away from the /community/ sub domain, so if you have pages bookmarked, they need to be changed

from: www.gilb.com/community/...
to: www.gilb.com/...

and the url that is generated from clicking on the menu items on the left side, are much more human friendly.

Kai

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Productivity: Concept *659. August 6 2008 (New)
Productivity is delivering promised value to stakeholders.

‘Deliver’ means actually measurable handed over and available to stakeholders.

‘Promised’ means that clear written agreements, are made in contacts, Requirements, documents and slides, or clear undeniable expectations are set.

‘Value’ means something of perceived use, to the Stakeholder; they need it, they want it, they are willing to sacrifice Resources to get it, they will be unhappy if it is late or lower in power than their expectations.

‘Benefits’ are the results of the perceived value to stakeholders. Benefits are what really happens, though time, as a result of the engineering value delivered.
It is an open question whether systems engineering should attempt to take some planning responsibility for enhancing benefits realization, or whether this is the system recipient Stakeholders that should be responsible for planning an environment to maximize benefits. Someone has to take this responsibility, and I fear that the system users with their ‘day jobs’, do not feel they are responsible or capable. In which case an opportunity for systems engineers, to enlarge their conventional scope of planning, exists.

So, we can simplify and say ‘engineering productivity’ is the ability to deliver agreed requirements.

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Update: 1st and 2nd is now taken, thanks! 3rd is now the only day available.

We are traveling to Japan, and have set aside 1st 2nd & 3rd of September 2008 to meet new clients. If you are interested please contact me so we can talk about potential possibilities.

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Vi gleder oss over å kunne tilby, i samarbeid med Nordnet, et prosjektstyrings seminar i Oslo 17. September 2008.



For mer informasjon, se: Prosjektledelse med Verdiskaping http://www.nordnet2008.no/gilb/index.htm

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The Gilb London course is growing year by year.
This year the theme is Risk & Uncertainty, and experts from all around the world is presenting and participating (very lively).

Speaker List

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From Agile Thinkers

One interview with Ryan Shriver of dominion digital and
one interview with Jens Egil Evensen of Avenir
sharing their experiences of using Evo methods!


What might interest some of you is that they both are Scrum Masters, adding Evo to Scrum to get better customer and Stakeholder orientation and value delivery. Both of them are Champions of Evo, working within consultancy organizations.

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Many people worldwide have watched the film “The Secret”. It highlights the “law of attraction” and how powerful and essential it is to personal achievements. It teaches how essential it is to set clear end state goals, and how, just by setting them, and having them clear in your mind, they will manifest through the “law of attraction”.

From their Web site: www.thesecret.tv “The Secret reveals the most powerful law in the universe. The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world's history, and through the lives of all truly great men and women. All that they have ever accomplished or attained has been done in full accordance with this most powerful law.”

The film runs like a US infomercial, I had to laugh at times at how it was presented and the values they represented, nevertheless, I think there is much truth in the core message. The film is pitched to individuals, and how they can use the “law of attraction”. I am, though with a very different style, pitching the same message to corporations for project management and development.

With clear visions of what the end states of a project is, “the law of attraction” will greatly support your accomplishment of those end states. With one person having a clear vision of what they want, the “law of attraction” is powerful. When everyone on your project shares a unified clear vision of the projects end states, the totality becomes extremely powerful. Everyone’s energy and efforts will pull, push and cheer the project in the direction of the end states.

The most powerful method you can learn in project management is being able to envision, state and share, the Stakeholder Values and or Product Qualities, the success criteria’s void of solutions, in clear meaningful quantified ways.

Kai

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