Posts Tagged “Governance”
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 (…)
Yeah, but what does the software do?
by jed simms on July 21, 2009
Two things happened recently on the same day in the same organization. The first was I received a copy of a post implementation review report that basically said “We don’t know if we got the benefits from this project as (…)
The demise of the Benefits Delivery Manager
by jed simms on July 2, 2008
Some of the larger projects around town are appointing a ‘Benefits Delivery Manager’ who is given accountability for ensuring the delivery of the benefits. This is a typical structural knee-jerk reaction to a process problem — appoint a person and (…)
Value Delivery Management and PMBOK
by jed simms on June 25, 2008
PMBOK is a “body of knowledge that identifies the scope of project management activities” so as to foster comprehensiveness and consistency. Its aim is to be applicable to all types of projects and, therefore, it can tend to contain the (…)
Project Governance on Steriods
by jed simms on June 17, 2008
As many of you will know, I’ve been pioneering Project Governance since the late 1990s. In the past year I’ve completely revamped and extended our Project Governance program. This complete program is now available under “Business Project Governance” at www.project-sponsor.com. (…)