During project execution, each attribute of the schedule (start, finish, duration) has two or more values. The Planned values are the Estimated values created during the planning process and copied to a baseline. A Baseline is a snap shot of Read More …
Author: John Lillard
John is an Enterprise Architect providing technology and organizational transformation advice, training and mentoring to engineering and technology organizations.
John has a passion for helping organizations define and implement their strategic vision.
John is a results driven leader in enterprise information technology with 25 years of experience delivering solutions to unprecedented challenges faced by government, corporate and defense organizations.
Prior to stepping out on his own in 2017, John served in technology leadership roles for the United States Navy, Ultrak Corporation and Security Instrument Corporation.
John holds a MS from the Naval Post Graduate School, a BS from American Military University and an AAS from Delaware Technical College.
He holds the following certifications:
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP),
Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP),
Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA)
John lives in Charleston South Caroline USA where he and his wife enjoy spending free time cooking, gardening, restoring furniture and bragging about their two children.
Definition of a System?
A commonly recognized definition for system is “a combination of interacting elements organized to achieve one or more stated purposes” (SEVOCAB 2017). Systems are often associated with man made items such as cars, computers, and software. However, it is important Read More …
Definition of an Organization?
An organization is any group formed to achieve a desired result or outcome. Products, profits, social change, national security, and services are all outcomes. Groups perform functions and tasks to achieve these outcomes. Groups use capabilities to perform these functions Read More …
Definition of Capability?
Capability is the power, capacity, potential or faculty to achieve one or more outcomes. Assurance is to have confidence, certainty or trust in an entity or outcome. People, organizations, and mechanisms perform functions and tasks to achieve these outcomes. Groups use capabilities to Read More …
What’s classes do you offer?
Can you customize your services to support our priorities?
Can you customize your services to support our priorities? It is our experience that sustained project leadership capability is based on an integrated set of people, processes and practices. However, we are able to customize our services to your priorities and Read More …
Home Network Security
The installation of IOT devices within the home enables users to establish their own home based private cloud. However, these private clouds are not so private. Nefarious actors hijacked the devices intended to help improve home security. A few data Read More …
Does Your Project Have a Dictionary?
In this installment of “Necessity is the Mother of Invention, Not you” we will discuss the value of using a common lexicon and dictionary in successful projects. I cannot count the number of times in my short 30 year career that I Read More …
Necessity (not you) is the Mother of Invention
If I have one pet peeve (I have many ) it would be the constant desire by some to invent rather than re-use existing capabilities. This problem applies to not only the solutions we deliver our customers, it applies to Read More …