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The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth # 10 “Success comes from being excellent at ‘what’ not ‘how’.” 30 June, 2009 11:57:00
If you make a film, “how” you make it is less important to its success than “what” you make. If you make a bad film with a poor characterisation and plot, however well you make it will not improve the core film. If you improve the film quality, the lighting, the cameras (the ‘how’) but not the plot or characters, then you’ll still have a lousy film (even if exquisitely made!) - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth # 9 - “Value management makes sense of Project Governance” 23 June, 2009 12:49:00
When your project plans bear no relation to your business case and its benefits, the Governance Team (Sponsor/Steering Committee/Project Board) can really only oversight the project and its dimensions. - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth # 8- "Resistance to change is created, not inevitable” 16 June, 2009 11:28:00
I recently saw a Change Manager’s slide pack that he had used on a road show ‘selling the project’. The pack consisted of 58 slides of which 46 were about resistance to change! That it was natural; that it was expected; that they were prepared for it, etc. This Change Manager had just trained his organisation to resist the change that was coming. - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth # 7- “All projects are ‘change projects’” 09 June, 2009 07:21:00
Benefits come from change. Therefore, it makes sense that every project should be seen as a ‘change project’. - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth #6 - ‘Success’ has three dimensions” 02 June, 2009 12:43:00
To be truly successful, a projects must meet three measures of success. Unfortunately, the number of projects that meet all three measures of success is fewer than 5%. - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth #5 - “The Value Equation changes the focus of projects” 26 May, 2009 10:15:00
Why does everyone measure to time, effort, budget and specification? Because that’s about the only set of measures available to measure to. Any project benefits are usually buried in the business case and are not linked directly to project outputs and therefore don’t provide a basis for end-to-end measurement. The Value Equation™ changes all of this. - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth #4 - “We don’t do business cases to justify projects..." 19 May, 2009 09:40:00
Often the only connection between a business case and the project plan is the same project name on the cover page! - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth #3 - ‘Tangible’ Means ‘Measurable’ (Not Just ‘Financially Measurable’) 12 May, 2009 11:53:00
All benefits must be measurable (tangible in the true sense) otherwise you’ll never know if you have achieved them - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth #2 - The business case Is a ‘contract’ 05 May, 2009 11:59:00
The Business Case spells out an organisation’s ‘contractual’ commitments -- the required funding, staffing, governance team commitments and other resources. - +
The Self Evident Truths of Project Management: Truth #1 - We Do Projects to Realise the Associated Benefits 28 April, 2009 11:24:00
Project managers need to shift their perspective from ‘delivering projects’ to ‘realising benefits’. - +
How Do You Know if Your PMO is Successful? Part IV: Cross-Project Services 14 April, 2009 11:55:00
You’ll only know if you’ve been successful if you know why you’re needed.
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Mission critical apps and cost of down-time major driversCIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec.
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