Critical Insights (15)

by jed simms on April 28, 2009

Our consulting company, Capability Management International, is 15 years old this year. So we start the year with 15 of our most critical insights. “We need a new ‘Project Delivery Science™’” I recently sat in on a project team management (…)

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Critical Insights (14)

by jed simms on April 21, 2009

Our consulting company, Capability Management International, is 15 years old this year. So we start the year with 15 of our most critical insights. “Internal staff have the deep smarts® to deliver extraordinary results” The past 20 years has seen (…)

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Critical Insights (13)

by jed simms on April 14, 2009

Our consulting company, Capability Management International, is 15 years old this year. So we start the year with 15 of our most critical insights. “The PMO is (or should be) a sub-committee of the Investment Committee” I sat opposite a (…)

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Critical Insights (12)

by jed simms on April 8, 2009

“Software is just automated processes” Software is too often seen as a black art or magic box that can only be understood by the high priests of technology. A whole mystique has grown up around software. Now it is time (…)

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Critical Insights (11)

by jed simms on April 1, 2009

“Project scope is a weapon of opportunity not control” If you mention the word “Scope” to a most people around projects the first word they think of is “control”. As a result too often projects are scoped too tightly from (…)

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