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Welcome to ProjectCrunch!
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
After long preparations and many discussions about all kinds of questions regarding design, structure and content, ProjectCrunch finally goes online!
Author Archive for Roman Mildner
Roman Mildner, Certified Project Manager (PMP) and member of the United Mentors Network (UMN), has worked in the IT industry since 1992 and an independent consultant and project manager since 1998. His professional offering includes IT strategy consulting, project management, process improvement, and requirements management. For more details, please visit his UMN page.
The Excel Trap
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham H. Maslow
Business process modelling: Mission Impossible?
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
At first sight the task appears easy: capture the business processes, visualize them in an easy to understand form and use them as a basis for quality or efficiency improvement projects. This goal may seem trivial to a rationally thinking consultant. Especially in larger organisations, we frequently see action teams attempting to capture and model [...]
Viral Microprocesses – micromanagement, reloaded
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
“Mr. Consultant, this is really simple. Please just write down how you proceed with the use case specification step by step. This must be straightforward; you will surely have something like this ready-to-use in your drawer, right? The Customer is the King.” The brave consultant does not hesitate. “You will have the paper on your desk by tomorrow morning.”
Back to the mediocrity through obligatory process definition?
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein
Process by Objectives
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
“There are no problems, only solutions” – John Lennon
On the third maturity level of the CMMI model, a comprehensive process model must be defined. Process modeling is well-known to be a challenge that has some interesting aspects. For example, the question: what does a “defined process” actually look like? Interestingly enough, the CMMI doesn’t help [...]
Process optimization: Wishful thinking or reality?
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
“85% of the reasons for refusing to fulfil customer expectations you can trace back to failures of systems and processes, and less to people. The task of management is to change processes not the people.” (W.E. Deming)
What is a process?
Roman Mildner
25.10.2010
Recently, everybody seems to be talking about “process improvement,” “process design,“ “process maturity, “ and so on. But what actually IS a process?
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