PMO Management
Please Mr Client, can I have some more?
When I was with what is now called Accenture (which was then Arthur Andersens) our Managing Partner was adamant that if a project went over budget we had to ask the client for additional funds. Woe betide any manager who failed to get additional funds.
Some years later when Head of Strategy for a bank, I [...]
Please sir, can I have some more?
When considering a request for additional funding there are three types of funds — sunk funds, the ‘money at risk’ (to be spent in the next phase) and the remaining projected cost of the project. The remaining projected costs have not yet been spent.
Money already spent is ‘sunk’ and cannot be recovered. Money not yet [...]
5: The Business Capability Maturity Model
Why is it that two organizations implementing the same technical solution (hardware and software) can generate very different results? One implementation may be a disaster and threaten the existence of the organization, while the other generates massive, positive returns.
When we[1] found this discrepancy in business results from common technology in 1993-96[2] we went [...]
How healthy is your ‘health check’?
A major international consultancy showed me their project health check checklist. It wasn’t a ‘health check’ at all, it was really a project audit.
What’s the difference?
An audit checks the existence of the necessary documents, reports and sign-offs. Do you have a change management strategy? Yes, tick, move on.
This approaches assesses the existence and, occasionally, the [...]