EM.411 meeting Bryan Moser program management
Target setting
Managing value gap between null outcome and stretch goal
Set target somewhere between these two
Manage uncertainty
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Manage space between null and stretch
Paradox of stretch goals
Sitkin
Why plan?
Plan
From Moser
Organization of ram and work
Estimate
Commitments
Is a plan a map or the territory
Map, I think
At a startup, the plan is close to the territory
As the plan moves further away from the territory, you begin to need models
One way to think of it
A plan is a compression of the action
As you need to compress more and more, you lose fidelity
Another thought
This territory is over time and people
History
Henri Fayol
Frederick Taylor
We can find optimal way to do a job
Knowledge is more important than manual skill
Henry Gantt
Focused on time
Time is the fundamental measure of a job
Gantt Chart
Flow
Karol Adamiecki
Focused on the handoffs rather than the tasks
Laws of harmony in management
Harmony of choice
Harmony of doing
Harmony of (missed)
Used to design the Empire State Building
Line of balance
Thought of it as a marching band
This might be related to Category Theory
About relations (handoffs)
Projects as networks
Use of Bayes’ Theorem techniques for forecasting in ww2
Graph theory
Usually they focus on schedule
Two representations
Activity on node
Activity on arc
Arrows are functions
Category Theory
Critical path method