(I) Avoiding Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Automatically Tailoring Your Organization's Set of Standard Processes

Dr. Kenneth E Nidiffer    

A significant issue facing project managers is how to effectively and efficiently tailor their Organization’s set of Standard Processes (OSP) given the technological and organizational complexity of both their programs and OSP. Early in 2004 member companies engaged Systems and Software Consortium, Inc. (SSCI) personnel on a task to investigate and report on researching the theoretical possibility of performing process tailoring using pre-defined rules. They requested that SSCI choose an industry/government standard process description to be used as a representative OSP. The Naval Systems Engineering Guide was chosen.

Research activities moved from determining the theoretical possibility of rules-based process tailoring to determining the practicality of automating rules-based process tailoring. It was determined that not only was rules-based process tailoring possible, but could be done in an automated manner. Key results, lessons learned, benefits and next-steps will be presented.

Track Information:

Track 3Room Salon I
Wednesday May 3, 2006
3:25 PM - 4:10 PM

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Avoiding Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Automatically Tailoring Your Organization's Set of Standard Processes