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Sandeep Mukkara

Boston / Houston Matrix

9/9/2014

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Landmark developed a set of criteria for categorizing projects, including both project and team attributes. With time they have seen their "Houston Matrix" prove useful. The criteria of the Houston Matrix were

Complexity drivers:
1.team size,
2.mission criticality,
3.team location,
4.team maturity,
5.domain knowledge gaps, and
6.Dependencies

Uncertainty drivers:
1.market uncertainty,
2.technical uncertainty,
3.project duration, and
4.other projects’ dependencies on that project,
  and scope flexibility.

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Quadrant assessment:
       The project’s overall complexity and uncertainty score is calculated on the basis of the aggregation of the individual complexity and uncertainty attribute scores. 
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Where i and j are the complexity and uncertainty

attributes, respectively, for a given project, and xi and yj  are the individual complexity and uncertainty attribute scores from Tables 1 and 2.

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Dogs:
  Some projects are just plain "Simple" - they are like Dogs, they can be trained to be well behaved. For these, just the core Crystal Clear practices are sufficient.

Colts:
  But "Simple, Uncertain" projects are like Colts, with lots of unfettered energy.
The commonly seen tools of Scrum / XP help here.

Cows:
  Some Complex projects are corporate Cash Cows, and they're larger.
These require more rigorous requirements management and Project plans with dependencies and critical path.

Bulls:
  While "Complex, Uncertain" projects are like Bulls, large and hard to control.
Agility is needed to steer through the uncertainty, and some rigor to manage the complexity. The best Project Managers are needed here.

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1/12/2023 08:52:20 am

Thankk you for this

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