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Project
Management C-Law
By Clive Boustred, Founder & Chairman
The
"de-dap-pm" Project Management Style
A further law developed by the Founder, the Project Management C-Law, is yet another important component in implementing InfoTelesys' plan. The rate at which technology is released coupled with the often-complex integration, and resulting difficult project management task, compels the following law:
“Rapid
acceleration in the rate of change in technology necessitates Dynamic,
Distributed, Asynchronous,
Parallel Push
based Planning and Management”
DDAPPPM
“de-dap-pm”
Dynamic planning is mandatory for high technology fields. Coordinating the release of product needs to take into account the availability and stability of multiple interrelated components and products. Components need to be dynamically integrated as they are available, stable and cost effective, without holding-up the entire organization. OO design plays an important part in this key element.
Distributed planning is necessary for two reasons. Firstly, since highly advanced components cannot be managed from a micro basis, management and design needs to be handed down to the level at which the component is being developed. Secondly, as applications and infrastructure is spread across the world in a distributed architecture, management of these implementations needs to be carried out on a distributed basis.
Asynchronous planning is extremely important in complex systems. Synchronous planning places critical paths which hold up the entire project, by promoting asynchronous design, individual components can be completed individually and integrated in their own time. This concept ties closely with Object Oriented design techniques where interface is separated from implementation allowing objects to be dynamically and transparently plugged in and out of the infrastructure without affecting the overall system.
Parallel execution is mandatory in order to accomplish the rapid time to market required in high technology fields.
Push based planning is preferred over pull planning, in that it more accurately predicts cycle times versus pull based planning, which is reactionary and does not cater for forward planning. In the technology field, companies need to be many steps ahead of the competition, coupling short product life cycles with longer development cycles, mandating push style planning.