More product-driven organizations drive projects at the local business unit, division, or product level. Even these silo projects gain benefits with an impact assessment.
Top 10 blog posts for 2013, 5 to 1
The top 10 blog views for 2013 continue on with a top 5 countdown to the most requested posts of the year.
Does your organization challenge find a platform within? Or will the might of the project hammer leave all who enter impact stagger out concussed?
Seriously, what were the most viewed posts on: culture, projects, impact assessments, learning? All interests revealed within.
Impact Analysis — project management SharePoint template
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.
Recap: Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success
A recap on my series of six blogs around project scope. Includes links to slide deck and customizable templates: 1 of 6 — …
Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success; stakeholder analysis template
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.
Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success; impact analysis template
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.
Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success, part 2
The key for organizations to grow and to thrive relies they ability to scope, manage, and deliver projects. How you and your …