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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. (…)

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9: The Change Planning Framework

by jed simms on April 1, 2008

Every project is a change project. Even the replacement of your IT infrastructure is a change project. One of the major shifts in thinking the Governance team should bring to a project is that it is a change project. That (…)

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8: The Five Components of Value Delivery

by jed simms on March 25, 2008

When seeking to improve their project delivery capability many organizations focus on their project management skills. This is a business capability maturity level-1 approach — get a better quality ‘hero’ (project manager). Project managers have a specific organizing, conducting, facilitating (…)

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7: The Governance Structure

by jed simms on March 18, 2008

A common misconception is that projects rotate around the Project Manager. This is not so. They really rotate around the Project Sponsor. The Sponsor is the person with the connections to the Executive Committee, his or her peers, the Steering (…)

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6: The Evaluation Model

by jed simms on March 11, 2008

When life was simpler, projects could be assessed on their claimed return on investment (ROI). If the project was financially worthwhile (at the time of approval) and supported by some executive, it would be approved. Projects tended to be approved (…)

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