Project Management
Are Project Managers a ‘commodity’?
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 cannot give them a career path in our organization but they can.”
This seems to me to [...]
The Problem with Project Management Scope
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 your project’s delivery. But you cannot rely on project management to increase the quality of [...]
The Problem with Project Management Application
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 with a 28 page ‘project control’ document that did not add one cent to the value [...]
The ‘Problem’ with Project Management
It is not so much that ‘project management’ is the problem, its just that it is not the solution!
Too often in people’s minds ‘project management’ is seen as the same as ‘project delivery’ — but it is not. ‘Project Management’ is the set of processes that organizes, structures and controls project activities and is the [...]
The worst profession in the world?
Project Managers are often bemoaning that “Project Management” is not accorded the status it deserves as a profession. “Organizations just don’t recognize that project management should be a core competency they need to focus on!” it is asserted.
But does any other ‘profession’ have such a high failure rate? Do engineers design buildings, 70% of which [...]