A birthday present
by jed simms on March 28, 2008
Today’s my birthday — so I’m going to give you a present. Over the past few weeks we’ve talked around and about Value Delivery Management™ (VDM) but not given you much information on its contents and the differences it makes (…)
8: The Five Components of Value Delivery
by jed simms on March 25, 2008
When seeking to improve their project delivery capability many organizations focus on their project management skills. This is a business capability maturity level-1 approach — get a better quality ‘hero’ (project manager). Project managers have a specific organizing, conducting, facilitating (…)
I’m an executive, get me out of here!
by jed simms on March 21, 2008
Executives fear projects. Projects’ poor history of results and value delivery makes being associated with projects a bit of a death sentence. To make things worse, when they try to ensure their project succeeds they often make things worse. “We (…)
7: The Governance Structure
by jed simms on March 18, 2008
A common misconception is that projects rotate around the Project Manager. This is not so. They really rotate around the Project Sponsor. The Sponsor is the person with the connections to the Executive Committee, his or her peers, the Steering (…)
Can you take the truth?
by jed simms on March 14, 2008
Some PMOs, CIOs and others keep telling me that their organizations are not mature enough to focus on value and benefits. But wait, the realization of the value and benefits is why you’re commissioning and endeavouring to deliver projects — (…)