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First Team

Add

• Robust risk assessment at start of project
• Access to customers
• Celebrating the "minor" victories along the way (no such thing as minor victories - teams form around these)
• Increase meeting productivity
• Team commitment

Keep

• Team involvement
• Great communication between developers, requirement modelers, and architect
• Review of lessons learned from most recently completed projects (successes and failures)
• Openness to re-evaluation and redirection
• Meeting elimination

Remove

• Blaming sessions
• Pointy haired boss's "motivational speech" at project kick-off meeting
• Multiple communication channels between management and team. Give us *one open* forum, with difinitive checkpoints
• Senior management inconsistency
• Anger, Frustration, Confusion
  
  
• More ongoing coaching on the agreed-upon development process for those weren't used to it
• My own behavior
• Stated goal of what consititutes success
• Remove personnel problems/conflicts
• Reduce simultaneous pressure from other projects

Second Team

0. Communications is critical to all areas
1. Strategic = Add/Remove things at Sr. Mgmt. level including acceptance of risks (e.g., reorgs), oblivious to risks, detrimental interventions
   
   Tactical = Happy with our teams
   
   
2. Add/Modify Management enablers (contract acceptance, budget)
   
   
3. Process enabler to id and mitigate risk

• keep a good process
• modify or add measures to better implement that process

4. Communication enablers/disablers

• distance
• division of work
• intergroup coordination
• peer feedback

Third Group

Fourth Group

• Management forced people to lie to customers
• Remove certain individuals who don't fit
• Don't remove relationships or people who do fit including ones with experience
• Start testing early and often and effectively (programs/hardware, process)
• Checkpoints built in from start
  • requirements creep
  • cost creep
  • schedule creep
  • truth about progress
• We were told "No need to think about this"
• Choose tools that fit