What is a project Part 3 – comparing other definitions
This post reviews the reasons we don’t need specified elements and the implications of removing them. We’ll do this by looking at other definitions.
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Category: Project Management Concepts
What is a project Part 2 – Unpacking the definition
Continuing the series What is a Project. In this post, we unpack in more detail the main elements of this simple definition of a project.
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Reworking project management: a selection of tools
This post is a working list of core analysis concepts. These concepts will give us the tools to build new ways of project management practice.
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What is a project Part 1 – A simple definition
Last post I laid out the “Manifesto for Action”: my goal for a broad and inclusive...
Read MoreThanksgiving for IT Teams: Lock in your team’s achievements!
Scrum and Agile Guru Mike Cohn wrote in his weekly Agile Tips email that we should mark the moment to focus on what our teams have achieved. Triggered by the bigtime Thanksgiving celebration in the USofA, Mike wrote how we often...
Read MoreThe Dunning–Kruger Effect – Who knew?
I was introduced to the “Dunning-Kruger Effect” last night whilst listening to my first edition of a podcast called “This American Life”, as I listened to the story on the way to pick up my son from...
Read MoreProject Acceleration 2: The Status of Your Project Status
Following on from the initial post on Project Acceleration, this post covers the second aspect of accelerating any project, which is to have a precise and current understanding of your project’s status and outlook against...
Read MoreProject Acceleration 1: A Plan for a Plan for a Plan
Last post was a short clarification of the scope and purpose of the initial post on Project Acceleration, This post covers the first key aspect of accelerating any project, which is to have a plan for how you are going to go...
Read MoreProject Acceleration 1A: What is Acceleration?
This short post clarifiies the objective of the Project Acceleration series of posts. It outlines three types of Project Acceleration activity and identifies the Change Request type as the objective of this series.
Read MoreProject Acceleration. What Can you Do?
Suddenly you need to accelerate the delivery of your project! You no longer have until, say, 15th May, you now need to deliver by the end of April. Or maybe the middle of April!! So now you have to think about if, and how, your project can be accelerated. So, what can you do? How do you determine viability of acceleration, without ending up in a nett loss of momentum or progress, even if the acceleration process doesn’t materialize? Over the next few posts I will look at the key aspects of this question, and provide recommendations on how this can be approached.
Read MoreInterim Survey Results – State of Software Project Management 2015
The purpose of this is to give me a flavour of what types of software PM’s are operating in the world today, how they obtained their skills, and what kinds of problems they are having. I have 40 responses so far and would like to get that number up to give a bit of validity to the analysis. I’m publishing here some deeper analysis of this preliminary data to indicate the kinds of questions I’m asking myself and what I seek to tease out from the numbers.
Read MoreHow can we protect the value in our projects?
the end result of a project is not the technical components created by a bunch of technologists, it is the value created by the end customer who puts that capability to use. It’s so easy for that to get lost along the way, as the exigencies of real-world project delivery strike the project. But if the value is not recognised and maintained all the way through. The secret is simple: discipline and focus
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