Archive for the “Project Governance” category

JOIN THE REVOLUTION IN PROJECT GOVERNANCE

by admin on December 8, 2011

Project Governance has been neglected yet a governance team can destroy more value in five minutes than a project team can destroy in five weeks. Poorly understood, poorly supported and poorly executed it is not surprising that more projects fail due to poor project governance than poor project management. Yet while we invest millions in project management we invest next to nothing in project governance.

The 40-40-20 rule for Project Governance

by jed simms on November 25, 2011

  Executives know all they need to know — at least they think they need to convey the impression that they know all they need to know. And, to get to an executive position you need to have some sort (…)

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When do you call it out?

by jed simms on November 18, 2011

The project is finalizing the business case. It has no clear definition of the desired business outcomes. It has no process definition of its requirements – just a list of functions and features. The solution was selected on the basis (…)

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Watching

by jed simms on April 15, 2010

They say that there are three types of manager – those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that ask, “What happened?” I recently watched a governance team in action (or should that be ‘inaction’?) The (…)

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Governance of IT

by jed simms on May 5, 2009

This week a slight divergence into the world of Governance. If your organization wants to be sure that it is making the most appropriate use of IT, in the most appropriate way, and is protected against the risk of failure, (…)

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