Now that the Agile movement has expanded to larger organizations in more industries, we’re seeing a lot of variation. Granted, we’re used to a variety of frameworks, techniques, and methods in use, from XP to Scrum to Kanban to Continuous Delivery. However, lately, we’re hearing more and...
Many business are run top down and have dominant leaders, who believe they have to make every decision or input into every decision…meaning it’s their decision. Unfortunately, this leads to a culture of fear and long term to a fixed mindset. These people are called HiPPO’s… What...
Beginnings are always difficult. Projects are about people, people are about relationships, relationships are about trust, trust comes over time. So at the very moment your project is at its most vulnerable because you don’t have enough information, credible plans, nor stakeholder support, you also don’t have...
Admittedly this is a personal view and one shaped by my own experience, but I think that for anyone wanting to get started in project management, in order to really understand it and gain a significant amount of experience in a short amount of time,...
I’ve been thinking about the definition of project management for a while now. I think for many it’s been incorrectly defined, explained, or misunderstood, which has led to many of the challenges and ‘religious wars’ between Project Management and Agile. For many, ‘project management’ means a specific...
Project Managers Have One Key Goal: Project Success By integrating risk management into project management processes, project managers can anticipate and respond to potential challenges, increasing the likelihood of project success. However, project managers can encounter various pitfalls while managing project risk management. The most common, failing...
In 1995, Martin Cobb, then CIO for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, asked a question which has since become known as Cobb’s Paradox. He said: ‘We know why projects fail; we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?’ How...
WHY IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT IMPORTANT? Project management is important because it ensures projects get delivered on time, on budget, and within the agreed-upon scope. It not only saves time and money, but it also helps produce high-quality deliverables that achieve the intended outcomes for a project. Project...
It was to be a great digital leap for Germany’s biggest discount grocer. Instead, after seven years and €500 million in sunk costs, the project tasked with creating Lidl’s new inventory management system with SAP was killed in July 2018. In planning since 2011, the project...
Summary. There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve. A...