16 Sep How to Use Performance Metrics Effectively
How do you know a vendor or contractor is successful? How do you know a project or service is going well? What value is your project generating? Performance metrics were originally created...
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13 Sep Best Value Case Study – Recycling Services
A large organization was introduced to the Best Value Approach (BVA) in 2017. After reviewing the documentation and results of BVA, the client was interested in running a test-project using the BVA. The organization...
18 Aug Procurement Tip: The Pitfall of Minimum Standards
Today’s procurement tip is on minimum standards. As the buyer defines their requirements, they are apt to set minimum standards. Minimum standards have become common practice in the industry as a means...
18 Aug Tappan Zee $4B Bridge Project Failure
Tappan Zee Constructors (TZC) consisting of Flour, American Bridge, Traylor Bros and Granite Construction, has filed a lawsuit against the New York State Thruway Authority seeking $961 million for extra costs related...
28 Jul The IT Crisis Part 3 | How to Solve the Problem
The information communications technology (ICT) industry has had perceived performance issues for years. Performance issues have been identified as early as 1969 when in a NATO software engineering conference...
21 Jul The IT Crisis Part 2 | Complexity is in the Eye of the Beholder
The information communications technology (ICT) industry has struggled with performance issues for years with failure to be completed on time and on.....
07 Jul Using the Best Value Approach (BVA) Without Company Approval
One comment we often get from professionals is: “This process could save my organization lots of money, but I don’t have approval to run it.” Dr. Dean Kashiwagi, usually responds by asking them a question: “Do you need approval to...
30 Jun Procurement Tip: Having to Trust Someone is an Indicator of Problems
Today’s procurement tip is on trust. Many people believe that trust is key to project success. Most managers believe that project functions (including communication, contracts...
23 Jun How to Implement the BVA in a Large Organization
Professionals become excited about the benefits of the approach. The results and documentation make it a no-brainer to use in their organization but there is one big question that remains “How can we implement it in our own organization?”....
16 Jun The IT Crisis Part 1 | History of Project Performance
In 2018, due to repeated claims of information communications technology (ICT) performance issues, Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) compiled and analyzed.....