by David | Mar 14, 2017 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
We recently helped a client initiate a project to improve their rig incident reporting process. The first thing we did was insist on building a project charter—something that’s not very common in the industry. A project charter in and of itself is not that...
by David | Aug 12, 2016 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
“Plan The Promise” is a phrase we coined which means, at its most fundamental level, to plan out in detail whatever you’re about to promise to your client(s). It means doing your due diligence and making smart commitments on behalf of your business. To be...
by David | Jul 7, 2016 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements, System Requirements
I recently taught a young engineering student and some high school graduates heading off to engineering school about how to properly manage capital equipment manufacturing projects in the oil and gas industry. The students were surprised to learn that many projects...
by David | May 25, 2016 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements, System Analysis
Quality is conformance to requirements. – Philip B. Crosby What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 1:9 The low price of oil is forcing a lot of restructuring within the oil and gas...
by David | Apr 15, 2015 | Business or Mission Analysis, Design Definition, Integration, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements, System Requirements
In an earlier article, we talked about ad hoc project management and how several Oil & Gas manufacturers lack a formal project management framework. These manufacturers rely primarily on “Hero” project managers to successfully deliver their projects. In other...
by David | Nov 21, 2014 | Business or Mission Analysis, Design Definition, Implementation, Integration, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements, System Requirements
Your role as a project manager will improve dramatically when you start to think like a systems engineer. Your organization will improve too. What does a systems engineer do? A systems engineer takes different components and designs a solution that gets them to work...
