Benchmarking & Measurement

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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As you embark on making your business case for the impact of your learning initiative, consider assessing why many organisation do not do this well.  Often the top reasons that prevent organisations from measuring the impact are lack of time and money, level of effort is perceived as too high, and organisations, maybe subconsciously,...
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Leaders often realise that getting better in Project Management or Business Analysis is a journey not a destination.  There are short, medium and long term benefits of such an improvement programme that have tactical and strategic impact.  Leading indicators are a great compass to make sure that you are heading in the right direction. ...
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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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