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Metrics Program Part - 2

Standish Group Chaos Report - 26% Project are completed on time and budget

28% Projects scrapped before actual end

46% - In between the above 2 i.e. schedule or cost overrun.

A delay of 3 moths in IT project has revenue loss of 20%, as its time to profit has reduced and corresponding release delay.

Operational Metrics : Which help us understand benefit calculation :

1. Time to Market

2. Time to Profit

3. Cost of Non-Quality

4. Cycle time to single process

5. Cycle time to defect correction

6. Resue Rate

Productivity Metrics :

1. Cost \ engineer

2. Leraning curve Cost

3. Cost\ employee\country

4. Cost Evolution

5. Output rates\engineer

6. Cost\seat

E3 - Extract, Evaluate and Execute

While reading the book "

Best practices in software measurement:

how to use metrics to improve ...

By Christof Ebert, Reiner Dumke, Manfred Bundschuh"it talks of 3 steps to be followed in metrics, it suddenly striked me it can be applied to any activity as part of daily chores.

Decision making - well thats what metrics are needed for

1. Extract - Info, metric required for

2. Evaluate - The info needs to be evaluated for specific status.

3. Execute : Rather Act, take decision based on the above steps.

Program Management vis Project Management

Program Manager :

1. He keeps a eye on the triple constraints : time , cost and scope of the projects within his program with additional emphasis on business targets.

2. Program Manager Decisions are to meet tactical and strategic goals of the company.

Project Manager :

1. He keeps a eye on the triple constraints : time , cost and scope of the project.

2. He is more delivery and execution focussed.

Introduction to DICOM -

What is DICOM :

DICOM stands for - Digital Imaging and Communication in Imaging.

A medical standard which has evolved over last 20 yrs. It is a one stop shop for digital medical imaging (i.e. data transfer,storage and display ). All DICOM compliant companies have a PACS - Picture Archiving and Communication Systems.

PACS comprises of 3 main parts :

1. Image acquisition systems - called modalities in Medical Domain (MRI, CT, Ultrasound).

2. Digital Image Storage devices

3. Viewer Application s : Desktops on which acquired images are stored- Workstations.

PACS implements DICOM Standard :

Advantages of DICOM :

1. Universal standard in digital Imaging.

2. It supports 16bit of Greytones(around 65,000) in imaging, thus helping capture nuances of medical image, in comparison Jpeg or BMP can have only 256 shades of Greytones.

3. Storage of numerous image related parameters with the image.

4. 2000+ standardised medical attributes(Data dictionary), which helps in accurate diagnostics.

Managing Multiple Projects - Dos & Donts

How many times have you faced with a situation of handling more than 1 project- say 5-8, wow are we talking about Program Management. Well welcome to real world - well we do come across project managers handling 5-10 projects. Rather than being frustrated and fatigued, which frankly i am, handling 5 projects , lets see how we can do the juggling act.

Handlling multiple projects with shared resources and no dedicated teams, is indeed a hell of a challenge.

Dos

Project Tracking : Status meeting at least twice a week, with MoM circulated monitor projects based on the MoM and the agenda.

Know Priority of the Projects :

Know which projects are critical, and any schedule slip can impact land you in soup.

Dont`s

Overallocation : Resources in shared projects if over allocated, no project deadlines are going to be met.

e.g Resource A, has load factor 80% i.e can finish 4 days task in 5 days\ week.

If allocated on project A- 50% - would work of 2.5 days in 3.1 calender days.

Resource A can now be allocated for 30% i.e. can work 1.5 days in 1.9 calender days in the same week

In a Scenario - where Project manager B books the resource for 50% in same week, he would be over allocated and either of your of Project Manger B project would be impacted.

If using Project Server : check Resource allocation to confirm if the resource is not overallocated.

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Vision to Process

Policy - a direction; a writing that defines a business objective, plan or course of action.

Procedure - the what; a writing that defines a business process and assigns responsibility.

Process - the how-to; a writing how a specific operation is to be performed.

Goal is a position or place which an organization wants to attain. Goal is close to reality and is achievable by people.

Objective is the plan, to make and execute particular actions which must be taken to finish the gap between the current state and the desired one.

Mission is the method of defining objectives and making strategies to get those objectives.

Vision includes the foresightedness which is required to get the essential skill to organize existing resources, to achieve the desired outcome.

Company first make a Vision, then mission, in order to accomplish mission they make objectives and at the end they make goals (end result/place which organization want to get).

To take the Analogy little further to get the objective, Policy are framed, the what of Policy is Procedure and Policy is how the procedure is executed.