Since I wrote this article, IT Project Failure Rates: Facts and Reasons, several years ago, it continues to be one of the most read articles on my website. Thank you. Clearly, it continues to resonate, and not for good reasons. The picture of the frustrated fellow...
Every project, especially for complex initiatives in data warehousing / business intelligence / analytics, can fail because of poor project management practices. Following these bad practices lead to failure. A project manager’s job is beset with worst practice traps just waiting for the unaware manager to fail. These...
Vision or Mission - Which Comes First? What do Vision, Mission, and Strategy mean to you? Which comes first? I always stumbled with these simple, but powerful words until I saw this little illustration. Let’s put it into action with an analogy. I think about it like a...
The importance of an appropriate leadership style and methods has been discussed by the media and professionals for more than several decades now. Nevertheless, leadership was not regarded as a driving force of an organization until the 21st century. As mega-corporations such as Google, Apple,...
The best project managers are great communicators. And we are often required to inform, persuade, inspire, and lead others. Let's look at how public speaking may be hurting your career and twelve ways to become a better speaker. So, what is public speaking? It is the...
If anyone reading this is wondering what a Project Sponsor is, I will pose to you the question I pose to all organizations to answer what a Sponsor is: “A Project Sponsor is accountable for project success. What is the Sponsor accountable for?” I sum up in...
Project Management Methodologies Should You Use? With approximately 8,462 project management methodologies to choose from, how do you know which one is right for you and your team? Find the best approach for your project with our handy guide to popular PM methodologies. Once you’ve decided you...
What are project management methodologies and frameworks and how did we end up with so many of them? To answer this, we first need to understand the roots of modern project management. The Roots of Modern Project Management People began formally managing projects in the 1950s. Before...
3 Key Disadvantages of Agile Methodology Teams get easily sidetracked due to lack of processes Long-term projects suffer from incremental delivery The level of collaboration can be difficult to maintain Workdays are more than 9-to-5 blocks of time—especially if you’re a project manager. Every minute of any typical day is shaped by...
“Ten Steps to a Successful Project”- Ten Steps ®. The ten step method is based on over 30 years of research on the best practices of successful projects as against the poor practices of failed projects. This workshop teaches many techniques that will save you time,...