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The 8 Self Evident Truths #4

by jed simms on December 16, 2010

Self-evident truth # 1 Don’t start projects you can’t successfully deliver Projects are always started with the intention of successfully delivering the targeted results in full, yet all too often we… Don’t measure the project delivery capability demands of each (…)

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The 8 Self Evident Truths #2

by jed simms on December 2, 2010

Limiting beliefs If these Truths are self-evident, why are they still ignored? First, these Truths have existed for the most part outside the focus of the conventional (project management) cost control lens. They have been hidden by a series of (…)

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The 8 Self Evident Truths #1

by jed simms on November 25, 2010

As we’ve seen, the addition of the two lens – business value and investment strategy – changes project delivery. Importantly, they reveal the eight ‘Self-Evident Truths’ about projects. These Truths lie outside the perspective of current cost control based approaches (…)

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