Whether a new product launch or an inbound marketing campaign, all projects rely on people in communities to succeed. Projects that think persona, design, and social principles count customer adoption as a success criteria.
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.
Below, my slides from today’s Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business Conference in St. Louis. To view presentation within this site, …
A project introduces something new. New requires change from what was to a promise of what will. The project deliverable, or …
Project management offers a way to breathe new life into your organization’s competitive and operational advantage, but why is project management seemingly …
“Sure, you want to change scope, again. Hold still, here comes the new change control form.” “Sure, you want to change …
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.
Last Thursday night I gave a presentation to the Massachusetts Bay Organization Development Learning Group [update 2015: now Boston Facilitators Roundtable] on how to …
A venture’s viability really comes down to a bet on a team to deliver. It is the interpersonal process where venture performance …
In my last post I presented a case to manage your projects as a business portfolio. As a project manager the …
All the projects underway across your company share one, elemental risk: all projects across your company are human capital projects. The valuation …