In the previous installment of this blog series, we looked at the final steps of the military decision-making process (MDMP). In this post, I’ll dive further into the final step: Orders Production.
Read moreThe theme of this year’s AFCEA West 2014 conference is “Shaping the Maritime Strategy: How Do We Make It Work?” It’s a time of transition for our armed forces and federal government as budgets are being trimmed and a huge change in naval capabilities shifts from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Read moreIn this installment, we will take a look at the final three steps of the military decision-making process: COA Comparison, COA Approval, and Orders Production.
Read moreThe United States government’s IPv6 mandate means anyone wanting to sell computing or networking hardware or software to the government must be able to support IPv6. Most data center operators realized that a failure to support IPv6 will eventually restrict access to connected resources and promote inefficient communications, not to mention limit potential customers that require IPv6. There are immediate benefits in transitioning to IPv6 in the form of improved network topologies and security.
Read moreIn our last installment of this series, we looked at the similarities between Course of Action (COA) Development in the military decision-making process (MDMP) and the various processes in the Planning process group as prescribed by PMI®. It is important to remember that since neither orders production in the military nor writing a project management plan (or its sub-plans) in project management are linear processes, we will often see ourselves returning to processes that we have previously discussed. Plans (or orders) will always be updated when more complete information becomes available or assumptions are confirmed or proven to be false.
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