location: Cambridge
11:07
EM.411 Bryan Moser meeting program management
Know the classics better than the purveyors
Read the original work rather than textbooks
Galileo was the strongest Aristotelian
System Architecture
Conversation with materials
System Engineering
Conversation with context
program management
Conversation with self
Project is not an operation
Uniqueness is what makes work strategic
If nothing is different
After getting started, 95% of tide us
Strategy -> Plan -> implement
Making money is one thing, but what about social value
Strategy
Where to play, how to win
Michael Porter
Do activities differently
Free cash flow
Discount rate
Is a choice
Discounted cash flow
Choices of discount rate is part of strategy
Expose differences among parties regarding attributes
eg
Milestone A
Is it as commitment, a need, an estimate, etc
Project charter
Project charter is a formal request for a project plan
A useful charter acts as a boundary spanning object
Stakeholders
Cost
Schedule
scope
Tolerances