Archive for the “Project Management” 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.
Looking the wrong way
by jed simms on April 28, 2010
When project delivery is not performing the natural tendency is to look at project management. “How can we improve project management?” “How can we improve the relationship between IT, the project and the business?” “How do we up-skill our project (…)
Are Project Managers a ‘commodity’?
by jed simms on March 10, 2010
One organization is getting rid of its pool of project managers as “you can just go to the market and buy them as necessary”. Another organization outsourced its project managers to a major systems implementer on the basis that “we (…)
The Problem with Project Management Scope
by jed simms on August 11, 2009
Project management contributes to project success, but does not guarantee it. Project management can efficiently deliver the wrong result as well as a high-value result; it is content agnostic. You, therefore, need effective project management to increase the efficiency of (…)
The Problem with Project Management Application
by jed simms on August 4, 2009
Our approach to project management translates the core project manager processes into value-contributing tasks. If you can’t contribute in to the business value being delivered then project management techniques should not be applied. On one recent assignment I was presented (…)