Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Project Management”
When things get bent Murphy’s Law takes too much credit (blame) when the more likely result being a symptom of poor planning and failures further upstream and earlier than Murphy ever came on the scene. The only law I do believe in is the law of gravity.
Projects have impact.
Impact affects risk.
Risk affects hope.
Hope affects scope.
This impact analysis template, designed for use with SharePoint, is an early-phase assessment to identify all stakeholders, their needs, their awareness, and their insight into the project before they surprise you.
Social media stresses compression of more with less. The more is information, the less is time. Time to read, react, and …
Project communication is far bigger than the project team. No project succeeds without stakeholder motivation and a proper communication plan to address their motivations, needs, and goals. Project communication is an effort to build commitment, understanding, and ownership around the project impact to people, process, and technology.
This template provides a planning tool to meet stakeholder communication needs. With this you can plan what to communicate, when to communicate, how to communicate, and measure communication performance.
Fast Start conversation: Most projects fail. Well, greater than 50% do. So, If the majority fail, why do they fail? They are …
The habit of deficit-based thinking gets us into spiral of what is wrong. When we look, with our hammer, for things to fix then every interaction and process, all those nails, look right for a good hammering.
There is an alternative switch into the art of planning possibility.
A project introduces something new. New requires change from what was to a promise of what will. The project deliverable, or …
Some people, and some organizations, can confuse very elemental operational concepts. The confusion is tough to trace to a culture issue …
Project management is a profession. Project management is a discipline. Project management is a skill. Project management is a function. Project management is a process. Project management is …
The essence of strategic change is not a new direction, but a series of directives. What to start, what to stop, …
A stakeholder is anyone, or group, who can positively or negatively affect the outcome of the project. This post introduces two Excel template worksheets for stakeholder identification and management.
Prior to a project’s go-ahead this template identifies groups and individuals with a stake in the success, and failure. The effort makes sure we understand the key concerns and motivations of these audiences in order to mitigate risk to over-look or under-appreciate stakeholder position.
Project management offers a way to breathe new life into your organization’s competitive and operational advantage, but why is project management seemingly …
In addition to sales and finance, there are two complimentary organization priorities that leaders should focus on to achieve and sustain …
An impact analysis is an early-phase assessment to identify all stakeholders, their needs, their awareness, and their insight into the project – these people are not only sponsors and customers, but the people you want to invite people into the change. Involvement impacts success.
Just like a pebble tossed into a pond, projects cause ripples that carry beyond the initial splash. Projects sponsors who fail to link the change a project has to people, process, and technology risk project success and project adoption.
The key for organizations to grow and to thrive relies they ability to scope, manage, and deliver projects. How you and your …
To deliver what someone expects, when someone expects, and the price someone agrees to requires an ability to define scope.
When a project fails, resources are lost and organization pressure increases. The more projects that fail the more resistant people are to associate with, work on, or fund new projects.
This is a first in a series of scope and project management blogs and templates to improve project delivery with a set of tools and principles to understand and manage project scope, from impact assessment through stakeholder communication.
The ability to scope and deliver a project is a competitive advantage.
The best organizations realize project management capability as a strategic differentiator, the lagging organizations only staff project management skills within Information Technology departments.
I now rely on the term portfolio planning to describe the translation of strategy to a group of project options an organization can undertake. A portfolio view projects priority using the same risk and return criteria capital expenditures and other financial or strategic commitments are evaluated.
Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. We have meetings to clear up confusion, to communicate, to interact, to make decisions, to listen, …