Managing your project and benefit delivery risks
by jed simms on April 29, 2008
I recently reviewed a $15m project that was struggling. It was already 6 months late and likely to slip another 6 months, yet its risk log contained only three risks, one of which related to delivery. Overall, from a risk (…)
Railroaded
by jed simms on April 22, 2008
Projects can be likened to trains. If you want to be going northeast but set off on rails leading northwest, you can’t easily just turn right and correct your course. You often have to go back to the start and (…)
True value
by jed simms on April 15, 2008
A CFO recently disputed that he was not getting the value expected from his projects. He pointed to a zero failure rate (ie all projects formally approved had been completed) and benefits locked into future budgets. So we dug a (…)
10: Success Triangle
by jed simms on April 8, 2008
Delivery of a project is not the only measure of success that has to be met. There are three different but complementary measures of success — and all three must be met for a project to be deemed fully successful. (…)
The most dangerous thing on projects?
by jed simms on April 4, 2008
I remember attending a 3-day strategic planning conference where my role was to sum up what had been said and decided. When I pointed out that I had sat through 22 hours of presentations and discussions and not heard the (…)