Also, how effective do you feel the results have been. I ll provide a pointer to the article when it s published. This might be a good survey question to the list, i.e., how many people are familar with the model. I doubt if the advances made in Aerospace and Avionics are being used effectively in the Control Systems world. I have found the secret to control project management is balance.
Most projects lack proper management, but many projects are managed to death.
I have seen so much time spent on trying to manage the project that the management itself makes the project over budget and late. The most important part of a project is requirements gathering. It will seem awkward and useless sometimes, but I have always gone over and over the project requirements and questioned my customers until they are sometimes sick of answering questions. Once requirements are established, I write a complete and detailed specification and present this to the customer. I prefer to present it in person and go over every section to ensure that they customer understands everything I am going to do.