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damage to my round. I have added a similar pre-shot checkpoint for the
other two known weaknesses that are common with my swing. This
pre-shot
set-up with conscious checks
appeared to have gotten this issue under control.
9.12 Measurement Objectives and Aligned Measures
My game didn't need to be perfect, but I wanted to keep it within a tolerance
I could manage. To accomplish this I employed a
measurable objective
.
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When I
was a teenager, I used to play close to par golf (shoot in low seventies on
most par seventy-two golf courses). At fifty-nine, given the amount I play, I
would be satisfied to play well enough to have a reasonably good chance to
break eighty each day. That was my
measurable objective
for the project. A
more
specific measure
I derived from that objective
8
was “
thumb position
.” This
was something I could monitor by visually checking prior to each shot.
9.13 Another Checkpoint on the Golf Improvement
Project
Another observation I found in my notes about my swing was my tendency
to bring the club-head too far inside on the backswing. Chris Demarco, a
touring professional has a habit during setup of taking the club back half-
way and then looking at it. I have found using a similar practice swing and
checkpoint helps to ensure that I break my wrists up soon enough, keeping
the club on plane while starting the backswing. As a result, I have also added
this
checkpoint
during my
pre-shot routine
. Let us consider the business side.
9.14 A Critical Distinction: Traditional CMMI and Agile
Approach
Yo u c a n t h i n k o f m y
specific checkpoints
as data gathering from
subprocesses
of
my golf swing that I have selected and placed under statistical management.
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7. The Measurement and Analysis Process Area, Specific Practice 1.1 states, “Establish and maintain mea-
surement objectives that are derived from identified information needs and objectives.”
8. The Measurement and Analysis Process Area, Specific Practice 1.2 states, “Specify measures to address
the measurement objectives.”
9. Refer to the previous discussion on Quantitative Project Management in Chapter 3.
