Archive for 2008
Seasons Greetings to all of our readers
To all the readers of the value delivery management newsletters, thank you for taking the time to read them, comment on them and, hopefully, learn from them.
Next year, 2009, promises to be a great year as we launch the new website valuedeliverymanagement.com on an unsuspecting world! We’ve now reached critical mass in terms of the [...]
The worst profession in the world?
Project Managers are often bemoaning that “Project Management” is not accorded the status it deserves as a profession. “Organizations just don’t recognize that project management should be a core competency they need to focus on!” it is asserted.
But does any other ‘profession’ have such a high failure rate? Do engineers design buildings, 70% of which [...]
Fast and furious?
Academics and others are peddling the line that business is changing so fast that it is pointless setting out on a project of any duration because too much can change in the meantime. So, instead, you’re to focus on defining the problem and identify what assumptions are involved in this problem definition and therefore what [...]
Outputs versus Outcomes
“Projects deliver outputs, programs deliver outcomes” is the new mantra.
Sorry, I must have been absent when this distinction was made as I’ve always tried to deliver ‘outcomes’ from my projects. To merely focus on delivering some ‘outputs’ and ignore the ‘outcomes’ makes a nonsense of why we do projects. It lets the project team get [...]
How to refocus your project onto value
If you missed it …
Last month in Singapore I presented on “How to refocus your project onto value” at the inaugural Asian Project Manager Conference.
The transcript of my speech is this month’s special offer as a free download at valuedeliverymanagement.com
In addition to giving you some useful insights into how to improve your projects, you can [...]