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SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Application to market
Correlation to accepted practice and concepts, 910817
PMI Body of Knowledge, PMBOK
Project Management, Methods, Procedures
Subject Index, 910906
Project Management, Fundamentals & Overview

0808 -
0808 -    ..
0809 - Summary/Objective
0810 -
081001 - Follow up
081002 -
081003 - Scanned two articles in Sep 1993 PMJ.  Ref OF 1 explains revisions to
081004 - PMBOK on defining "Project Management" as a discipline.  Ref OF 2 is
081005 - an opinion that PM theory and acedemic models needs correlation with
081006 - practice of project management.  These provide opportunities for SDS
081007 - and POIMS to improve existing practices.
081009 -  ..
0811 -
0812 - Progress
081301 -  ..
081302 - PMBOK Supports SDS Management Cycle
081303 -
081304 - Scanned article at ref OF 1, from Sep 1993 issue of Project Management
081305 - Journal, on page 5.
081306 -
081307 - The article explains recent changes to PMBOK.  It shows a correlation
081308 - between SDS and accepted management practices, in particular on page
081309 - 6, ref OF 1 line 69 and ref OF 1 line 132, it shows:
081310 -
081312 -           ..
081313 -          --------->  Planning
081314 -                                   /  \
081315 -                                 /      \
081316 -                               /          \
081317 -                             /              \
081318 -                           /                  \
081319 -                  Executing ---------------> Controlling
081320 -                                                   \
081321 -                                                     \
081322 -                                                       \
081323 -                                                     Closing
081325 -       ..
081326 -      [On 940608 PMBOK cycle correlates with Deming's system. ref SDS 6
081327 -      0666]
081329 -     ..
081330 -    The "Plan", "Execute", "Control" cycle is a TQM idea cited in SDS
081331 -    Help, ref SDS 5 line 145.  It is mentioned in earlier PMI articles
081332 -    on Quality, at ref SDS 6 0666, which is implemented by the SDS
081333 -    Management Cycle shown at ref OF 15 line 46:
081334 -
081335 -
081336 -                                   Plan
081337 -
081338 -
081340 -                        ..
081341 -                       Perform                Report
081342 -
081343 -
081345 -  ..
081346 - SDS expands the accepted practice of "Controls" by adding a correla-
081347 - tion between schedule, cost and quality, and "kowledge" and "ideas" so
081348 - the cause of results is readily available.
081350 -  ..
081351 - More importantly, SDS provides the tools for project managers to "con-
081352 - trol" the content of the record, per ref OF 3 line 350.  This level of
081353 - control is rarely discussed in the liturature, as a means to attain
081354 - project objectives.
081355 -
081357 -  ..
081358 - These can be used to market SDS, with respect to application.
081359 -
081361 -  ..
081362 - Subject Indexing
081363 -
081364 - The PMI "PMBOK" is a source to develop subject structures for managing
081365 - projects, and this article is related to creating a subject index, and
081366 - the challenges of the process.
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SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Application to market
Project Planning & Oversight
Project Management, Methods, Procedures
Project Management Trends, Changes,
Automation Trends
Re-Engineer Project Management
Project Management, Trends, Changes,

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141001 -  ..
141002 - CONSTRUCTION PLANNING:  Revising the Paradigm
141003 -
141004 - Scanned article at ref OF 5 0001 from Sep 1993 issue of Project
141005 - Management Journal, on page 23.
141006 -
141007 - It explains that construction planning is implemented differently from
141008 - the way it is taught and required by company procedures.
141010 -  ..
141011 - The authors posit that accepted construction planning methods have not
141012 - realized potential because they do not adequateley account for
141013 - "uncertainty," ref OF 5 6F5K and ref OF 5 5G3I, similar to the theme
141014 - discussed by Ken Cooper, ref OF 13 I55K in his article on the "Re-work
141015 - Cycle", reviewed on 930216. ref SDS 2 4633  The call to shift from
141016 - reliance on specialists to responsible managers, echos John Tuman
141017 - Jr.'s ideas in his PMJ article, "It's Time to Re-Engineer Project
141018 - Management," also, reviewed on 930216. ref SDS 2 0F5J
141020 -  ..
141021 - The authors recommend:
141022 -
141023 -     1.  Early plannning. ref OF 5 8J4T
141024 -
141025 -     2.  Greater involvement by primary responsible executives, rather
141026 -         than delegating planning to specialists, ref OF 5 FQ41
141028 -          ..
141029 -     3.  Constant integration of current results and new information,
141030 -         i.e. updating, ref OF 5 FQ8X, which is the POIMS notion of
141031 -         recycling current experience, ref OF 22 TY5M, with the plan,
141032 -         perform, report intelligence model. ref OF 23 G15N
141034 -          ..
141035 -     4.  Defer final planning of uncertain details until more complete
141036 -         information becomes available through research and/or project
141037 -         experience, ref OF 5 0593, implements POIMS requirements for
141038 -         deliberative anlaysis, aided by SDS support for capturing a
141039 -         greater share of daily events in order to base planning on
141040 -         actual experience, rather than general feelings. ref OF 22
141041 -         2300
141043 -      ..
141044 -     The authors promulgate the following steps that encapsule their
141045 -     approach to construction planning, ref OF 5 8K54
141046 -
141047 -          Diagonstics............................... ref OF 5 5553
141048 -          Information............................... ref OF 5 5T8V
141049 -          Deferring and Splitting Decisions......... ref OF 5 0593
141050 -          Absorbing Uncertainty..................... ref OF 5 558V
141052 -  ..
141053 - This is called "DIDA" and seems to answer in part John Tuman's call
141054 - to:
141055 -
141056 -     ... re-engineer project management. Specifically, we need a new
141057 -     model for project management. we need a new mission. and we need
141058 -     simpler and smarter tools, reviewed on 930216. ref SDS 2 M55O
141060 -  ..
141061 - A secondary theme is a call for acedemics to develop a theoretical
141062 - basis for methods used by successful practitioners, ref OF 5 8D67, as
141063 - related in the article, i.e. DIDA.
141064 -
141065 -    Acedemics seem reluctant to review SDS, NWO, and POIMS.
141067 -  ..
141068 - SDS argues that no project manager has the ability and no project
141069 - manager's budget has the resources to carry out in a consistent manner
141070 - the level of planning and execution needed, without automated support
141071 - for integrating the mangement cycle, called out in POIMS. ref OF 23
141072 - 6649
141074 -  ..
141075 - Manager's who are successful today are lucky, and will fail tomorrow,
141076 - if they do not acquire tools for augmenting intelligence, and the
141077 - skill to use those tools.  It would be as if the pyramids were
141078 - constructed without benefit of written language and mathematics,
141079 - contrary to the scriptures that say pyramids were created under the
141080 - common rule at the time...
141082 -                   ..
141083 -                  So let it be written, so it be done.
141085 -  ..
141086 - Today, in a new world order, getting things done correctly, on time
141087 - and within budget requires more powerful tools for implementing the
141088 - ancient dictum.
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