Transformation failure is on leadership. Change principles live or die on leadership connecting vision to value. Agile does not scale without …
Community persona for project management
A project is an intentional effort to deliver a product or service that creates an opportunity – intended or otherwise. Projects have multiple stakeholders with multiple needs for, or against, project realization.
Typical project steps include initial scope design, organization impact assessment, stakeholder identification, communications planning, risk, and a second iteration of scope, delving into user community goals serves project and stakeholders more accurately.
Identifying and Managing Project Risk by the book
The ability to scope, manage, and view a project, from concept to delivery, through a risk lens, presents the essence of organization competitive advantage.
The opposite of project effectiveness bogs down organization capital, both human and financial, through a cycle of change requests that drain human and financial resources and staff motivation who now need to focus how to get a wrong project right.
The failure of Murphy’s Law
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.
Fast Start — Smart failure for a fast-changing world
Fast Start conversation: The pace of change overtakes the pace of learning. In a short list of continually inspiring sites TED, …
Top 10 blog posts for 2012, 5 to 1
Top blog posts from 2012, from number 5 to number 1, a follow-up from Top 10 blog posts for 2012, 10 …
Top 10 blog posts for 2012, 10 to 6
Closing out 2012, I look back at the year’s most viewed posts as a chance to reflect on different blogs topics …
Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success; communication template
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 — Is your project doomed?
Fast Start conversation:Â Â Â Most projects fail. Well, greater than 50% do. So, If the majority fail, why do they fail? They are …
Fast Start — Queen of the Net interview and State of Internet
Mary Meeker, is both smart and fascinating, called the Queen of the Net, as in Internet, this Wired interview highlights some of what makes her both smart and fascinating.
Also included is Ms. Meeker’s Internet Trends presentation at the D10 Conference when she was with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Cited and noted: What Does Fortune 500 Turnover Mean?
Since 1955, the Fortune 500Â list represents the 500 largest US corporations by gross revenue. Â Making the Fortune 500 is a mark …
Fast Start — Flummoxed by Failure?
Fast Start conversation: Â Ah, failure. Â Happens to all of us; the reason pencils come with erasures. Intelligent people fail. Though there …