Project Management
Scope and differentiators equals success
I learned a lesson this week and it involved me breaking the golden rule of project management (external to the context of managing projects). Fortunately no children or small furry critters were harmed in the making of this story, yet a lot of heartache and inconvenience could have been avoided for all parties involved had [...]
Cooking up a good project
Whilst in a Project Management training session recently, my instructor shared a tidbit that I thought was brilliant. It summed up in two minutes for me what I’d spent hours trying to make management and stakeholders understand. That is the importance of the Project Start Up and Initiation Phase. Specifically, the production of appropriate supporting [...]
Are you ready?
Much has been written about organisation transformation. There are always references to the newest, hippest methodology out there and if companies implement these things through massive change programs, it is going to save business life as we know it. There seem to be whole professional services organisations out there dedicated to selling services to companies [...]
Benefit Realisation…not just a pipe dream
Much of the theory supporting the discipline of benefits management has developed out of the research into the failure of IT projects. However benefits management is equally applicable to any programme or project tasked with delivering change. It advocates the need for an integration of the process, people, information and infrastructure elements of change and [...]
“To try to do everything is to do nothing”
Ok, I am paraphrasing Frederik the Great but you get the idea. He actually said “to try to win everything is to win nothing”. This seems so true to me. Often with large IT projects we take on everything and win nothing. And yet for years, and especially recently, we see time and time again [...]
