Our podcast this month is from Ron Holohan’s PM411.org podcast series and features Joe Friedman, CFO of the consulting group Zehren-Friedman Associates. Joe talks about how to get agreement between two or more parties and of equal importance, how to build a relationship in the process. Joe talks about a four-step process in negotiating: Planning: most [...]
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James Edgell, VP of Information Systems at Motient and host of Managing Soft-ware Development (The MSD Show) provides us with his experience of COQ as it relates to software develop-ment projects. He discusses a number of metrics that COQ, a Six Sigma tool, is characterized by. Cost of Quality metrics: -Creation, cost of 1st [...]
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Bill Hertzing and Roger Hinckley of SBTI, a 6 sigma training and consulting management firm, discuss issues with implementing 6-Sigma and Lean in an inter-national project. It’s important to have a process improvement consistent language across cultures and to have training provided a firm that really understands how to implement a 6-Sigma initiative. Public offerings [...]
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IBM has a 10-minute pod-cast series, called BizTech Report. This BizTech Reports podcast features a conver-sation between Lane Cooper and Ed Thum, Program Di-rector for Rational Software at IBM, to explore the stra-tegic and operational impli-cations of the current IT cost management environ-ment on IT professionals. IT budgets are shrinking, costs are scrutinized more closely [...]
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