Posts Tagged “Project Management”

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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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The ‘Problem’ with Project Management

by jed simms on July 28, 2009

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 (…)

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