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A never-ending collection of research and essays. Click on the “underlined” text to go to the document. Updates provided as new material is produced.

• Graphic Language Study: Design System Programming Language Needs Analysis, Glen B. Alleman and James E. Norris, 22 August 1977.
• Performance-Based Project Management, Increasing the Probability of Project Success, a Book Review by R. Max Wideman, FPMI
• A Cure for Unanticipated Cost and Schedule Growth, Glen B. Alleman and Thomas J. Coonce, PM World Journal, Vol. XIII, Issue IV – April 2022.
• Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline, PM World Journal, Vol IV, Issue IX – September 2015, Glen Alleman, Tom Coonce, and Rick Price.
• Agile Project Management Methods for ERP: How to Apply Agile Process to Complex COTS Projects and Live to Tell about It, Extreme Programming, and Agile Methods—XP/Agile Universe 2002.
• Are Testers Extinct? How Can Testers Contribute to XP Teams?
• From Needed Capabilities to Project Deliverables—On Time, On Budget, On Specification
• Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
• Using a Balanced Scorecard to Build a Project-Focused IT Organization: Drive a high-performance team with a balanced scorecard and a program management office. Glen B. Alleman, CH2M Hill, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
• Fault-Tolerant System Reliability in the Presence of Imperfect Diagnostic Coverage, Glen B. Alleman, Irvine, California, 1989.
• C15 – Engineering Document & Data Management Architectures, May 25, 1999.
• A time study in numerical methods programming, Glen B. Alleman and John L. Richardson, Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, APL VI, Anaheim, California, May 14, 1974.
• Parameter Validation For Software Reliability, Glen B. Alleman, Fluor Corporation, Technical Contributions, Sigplan Notices, 1978.
• Inversion of Control: The Impedance Mismatch in Integrated Engineering Design Systems: Technical Note 2001:13
• Comments on “Managing Projects Involving External Threats,” American Society for the Advancement of Project Management.
• Improving DOE Project Performance Using the DOD Integrated Master Plan – 12481, WM2012 Conference, 26 February – 1 March 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• Architecture–Centered ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain: Architecture is the semantic bridge between requirements and software, Glen B. Alleman, Feb. 2002.
• Earned Value Management Meets Big Data, Glen B. Alleman and Thomas J. Coonce
• Performance-Based Project Management – Increasing the Probability of Project Success, Glen B. Alleman, Presentation Summary, American Management Association, 2014.
• Performance-Based Project Management – Increasing the Probability of Project Success, Glen B. Alleman, American Management Association, Book
• Increasing the Probability of Program with Continuous Risk Management: A Synthesis of Principles, Processes, and Processes, Glen Alleman and Risk Price, Joint Space Cost Council, 2018.
• Agile Project Management Methods, Glen B. Alleman, In The Story of Managing Projects: A Global, Cross-Disciplinary Collection of Perspectives, Dr. R. E. G. Carayannis and Dr. Y. H. Kwak, Editors, Greenwood Press, 2002.
• Is There an Underlying Theory of Software Project Management? (A critique of the transformational and normative views of project management), Glen Alleman, PM World Journal, 2023.
• Agile Project Management: Steering from the Edges, Glen Alleman, Communications of the ACM, 2001.
• Agile Management – An Oxymoron? Who needs managers anyway? Glen B. Alleman, CH2M Hill; Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute; Joe Blotner, Sabrix, Inc.; Ward Cunningham, Cunningham & Cunningham; Mary Poppendieck, Poppendieck, LLC; Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Wirfs-Brock Associates.
• Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment: Measuring velocity with Earned Value, Glen B. Alleman and Michael Henderson, CH2M Hill, and Ray Seggelke, Envision Technology Partners, Agile Development, June 25–28, 2003, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Agile Project Management Methods for ERP: How to Apply Agile Processes to Complex COTS Projects and Live to Tell About It, Glen Alleman, Agile Universe 2002, Chicago, IL.
• Improving DOE Project Performance Using the DOD Integrated Master Plan, Glen B. Alleman, DOD Programs, Project Time & Cost; and Michael R. Nosbisch, Managing Principle, Western Region, Project Time & Cost, Waste Management 2012 Conference, February 26 – March 1, 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• Chapter 7: Advanced Topics in Risk Management – Connecting the Dots, Risk Management, Glen B Alleman and Jon M. Quigley, Auerbach Publications eBooks, 2024.
• Connecting IT and business value through the Balanced Scorecard, Glen Alleman. 5/21/2007
• Blending Agile Development Methods with CMMI, Glen Alleman, Cutter Journal, Jim Highsmith, Editor, June 2004.
• From Arms Race to Green Space: PPM at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, Glen B. Alleman, Strategies for Effective Project Portfolio Management, Cutter Journal.
• Nine Best Practices: The Software Management Framework, Glen B. Alleman
• A Mathematical Tour of the Electromagnetic Force from Michael Faraday to Quantum Field Theory
• Project Success: The Basis of the Five Immutable Principles, Glen B. Alleman, Forum Building Project Management into a Mission-Critical Endeavor