Assessment

Your business case should be more than a financial document; it should be a strategy document. Crafting a business case that shows a strong return on investment can be powerful, but those numbers alone do not tell the whole story about a project’s potential impact. When weighing project acceptance, there are other crucial factors to...
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As mentioned in the previous blog, an easy, scalable and repeatable project assessment is needed.  Something that is based in the then current realities of projects, is actionable, and gets multiple perspectives. This is not to replace the deep dive into project metrics if they exist.  Nor is it meant to be the be...
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1.    Background For quite a number of years, organisations have seen a need to prove their “excellence” in an objective way to their current and potential clients. This has led to a proliferation of standards, such as TQM, Six Sigma and, of course, the focus on the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) for high-tech companies....
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Before becoming a project manager I had been working as a hardware engineer for a computer company. One day I was called to solve a problem with a computer that seemed to have caught fire whilst one of my colleagues was working with it. Arriving at the site, I found my colleague completely in distress;...
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It is all about current state: OR If you don’t know where you’ve been, how do you know where you are going? If you are ever faced with establishing current state to help with your metrics, consider the following diagram to guide your thinking.  Let me start with the Assess phase and break into the...
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Leaders of PMO’s, COE’s and Learning and Development departments have historically been willing to buy hope.  They believed that if they invest in developing the skills of their people (project managers, project team members and managers of project mangers) then the individuals will benefit and the organisation will as well—they were willing to buy...
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A while back I worked within an enterprise Project Management Office and had the job title “Special Projects Manager”. Now some of may see this as a glorified way to describe the guy who gets all the jobs that the Director doesn’t want to do!  And whilst you may be partially right, it did...
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