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...
by David | Nov 11, 2014 | Business or Mission Analysis, Implementation, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
Most Oil & Gas manufacturing projects start out with good intentions. The main focus at the start of the project is to make the promised delivery date. But what usually happens is things start to go wrong, and the delivery date looks impossible. But the...
by David | Oct 24, 2014 | Business or Mission Analysis, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” – Euclid “The longest distance between two points is a shortcut.” – Albert Lester The two quotes above come from one of my favorite books on project management, Project Management, Planning and Control, by...
