What is Project Acceleration Technologies (PAT)?
At Intel Corporation in the early 1990s there was frustration with project delays. Teams scrambled to try and recover. Tensions were high. Recovery efforts, in many cases, made things worse. By trying to recover the late items, without getting relief from the original dates, other items became late and the overall project fell farther behind schedule. Faced with this quandary, a new approach based on commitments was developed. While not totally an Intel original (some of the concepts had been used in the Polaris Missile System Program in the 1990s) Intel took it to a new and refined level. Teams that implemented this approach not only made their schedules but were able to deliver more 30% faster! Documented by Timm Esque in his book No Surprises Project Management: A Proven Early Warning System for Staying on Trackthis approach is being used at other organizations such as Symantec, Applied Materials, Freescale, Papyrus, Marvel, and others. Recently, some of the tools described in Mr. E
