PMT-Manifest

Andis PMT Manifest

Problem statement

• _No processes_ are fastest in execution but produce _random quality_
• _Too many processes_ are slow in execution and produce _suboptimal quality_

• A motivated team that anticipates the quality goals produces higher quality than a demotivated team that follows a complex process

Solution

• Only a high risk justifies an expensive process
  • Risk mitigation is the driver for designing processes

• Constantly improve processes:
  • If time, money and motivation spend on a process do not mitigate a severe risk, change the process

• Accountabilities must be clear:
  • An accountable person can weight cost, schedule, team-motivation, product-quality, process-compliance and decide which one to drop.

• Human decisions over Tools I:
  • If a human wants to make a change, a tool may request a rationale and it may complain, but a tool may not stop her/him.

• Human decisions over Tools II:
  • If a tool wants to make a change, it must not overwrite data entered by humans. A tool may have own status fields instead.