Archive for the “Prioritisation” category

5: The Business Capability Maturity Model

by jed simms on March 5, 2008

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 (…)

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4: The Uncertainty Principle

by jed simms on February 29, 2008

If you’re asked to estimate the time it will take you get from somewhere you’ve never been to another place you’ve never been either, how accurate would your estimate be? So it is with many project estimates – they’re based (…)

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Be Afraid, Very afraid!

by jed simms on February 26, 2008

In a recent exercise with one major corporation we reviewed six of their recently approved multi-million dollar projects — and found five of them should not have been approved. These projects needed to be done, but the way they had (…)

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Time for a Kill?

by jed simms on February 26, 2008

The project had already failed, been stopped or refocused three times. From its initial inception to now it had been in existence for 7 years. The total funds invested, and mostly written off, neared $50m. This time, the company vowed, (…)

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