Title

Summary

1st Published

Revised

The Pivot of Effectiveness

A new method for the TRIZ toolset that is directed at subsystem elimination to achieve cost reduction.

November 2004

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Project Memory

A look at how the Design Breakdown Structure, through InnovationWorks, helps maintain the project's memory and give an audit trail for project design decisions.

November 2004

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Seven Sisters of Project Management

The seven interrogative 'words': what, where, how, why, how, when and how much form the bedrock of defining a project. This article also gives an insight in to the Project Data Array concept.

November 2004

N/A

The Efficiency Method for Heat Transfer (Part 1)

An aside into an effective engineering alternative to the classic Log Mean Temperature Difference approach to heat exchanger design, with examples. Part 2 will examine the application to unsteady state processes, such as batch reactors.

November 2004

N/A

Fast Cats and Fat Cats

A light-hearted examination of how the use of stage gates in the project lifecycle makes life easier managing a project, especially in the IT sector.

June 2004

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The Generic Project Lifecycle and Beyond

An article that shows a fundamental project lifecycle to which all commercial projects should comply. The paper gives the basic model and a short explanation of how to adapt it to your own use.

June 2004

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Project Taxonomy

A paper that shows how to classify projects based on uncertainty in the three core dimensions of WHAT, HOW and WHEN. It also examines how project taxonomy is linked to the Dynamic Baseline Model, Project Management Maturity Models and the tools needed depending on the project's classification.

June 2004

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Multitasking or multiroling

A paper examining the issue of the difference(s) in the way each sex deals with multiple roles. It finds that women are well-known for multitasking but men may be better at code switching between groups, or multiroling.

June 2004

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