Project Performance International founder and principal Mr. Robert Halligan often performs speaking engagements in the fields of project performance and process improvement. A menu of short tutorials intended for evening delivery is also available. The tutorials include:

Functional Analysis - Why and How - Applications in the Problem and Solution Domains

Design Iteration Using Effectiveness Analysis

Principles of the Engineering of Systems

Ten Don'ts in Engineering Decision Making

Systems Engineering - the Next Ten Years

Twelve Issues in Systems Engineering

This presentation was delivered at the 2007 International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) in San Diego by PPI Managing Director and systems engineering guru Robert Halligan. The full text of this presentation, which challenges some conventional wisdoms, is not publicly available; this download contains the supporting graphics.

Getting the Most out of "Work" Breakdown Structure

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) can be a powerful aid in effectively managing projects. But WBS (or as Robert prefers to call it, "Project Breakdown Structure - PBS", is also easily misunderstood and misapplied. Robert's coverage of the subject, in an interactive style, will incude:
  • why WBS must not be just a breakdown of work
  • essential principles in adopting WBS as a management tool
  • failsafe rules for constructing effective WBS
  • relationships to other structures useful in project/engineering

Management: System Breakdown Structure (SBS, Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), Organissational Breakdown Structure (OBS), Specification Breakdown Structure (Specification Tree)

  • application of WBS to costing, scheduling, definition, risk  analysis, measurement, reporting, organisational design, and control.

    • Is it beneficial to apply the "classic" systems engineering approach in the commercial/industrial systems engineering world?

    Getting the Most from Integrated Product Teams

    How can we measure requirements quality, and why would we want to?

    Knowing What Needs to be Done is Only a Small Start! - Systems Engineering Process Improvement

    SysML - Warts and All

    OCD and CONOPS - Two Very Different Beasts

    How to Prepare Great Requirements Specifications

    Requirements are Design

    A Systems Approach to Software Engineering

    Twenty Million Systems Engineers; Twenty Thousand Who Know They Are

     

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