Projects from a Service Management Perspective – Part 1
Idea through to Delivery I’ve seen too many IT projects fail and too many business driven projects pushed into production only to give IT headaches. We need to stop this. Too often organisations...
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Projects from a Service Management Perspective In this second instalment on project management we continue to move through the stages of an IT project starting with the build phase. Read the first...
View ArticleFive Ways to Improve Your Project Plan
All over the world, promising projects quickly morph into unmanageable creatures, exceeding budgets and eating up time. In response, the collective finger of blame points to everyone’s favorite excuse:...
View ArticleHow does personality affect your projects?
Taking time out to observe It’s strange how we change as get older, for example history used to be my least favourite subject but now, all of a sudden, I can’t stop watching history documentaries....
View ArticleA Project Management Parable
Project Chicken From time to time, particularly at project management conferences, I tell a little story about when my father, in his late eighties, decided that he wanted to start keeping chickens....
View ArticleProject Output vs. Project Outcome
Rearranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic From time to time I give a talk called ‘Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic’ for project managers. For instance, for the PMI communities in Singapore and...
View ArticleThe Project: A Possibly Recognizable ITSM Fairy Tale
One day, the boss forgot his password My name, for this tale, is Nate. I’m an ‘Admin’ (for people not systems). Note I said “the” boss; I work for eight of them and five are male, so technically I am...
View ArticleFive Value Chain Examples for the Modern Company
The leaders of modern business are intently focused on value creation. Increased competition and other market pressures combined with rapid technology evolution are forcing companies to become more...
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