Posts Tagged “Governance”

Jelly Management

by jed simms on May 15, 2008

Imagine being asked to hold a jelly in your hands. So there it is, wobbling a bit, but relatively stable. Provided you don’t make any sudden movements, the jelly should stay in place. Some may melt and be lost through (…)

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Managing your project and benefit delivery risks

by jed simms on April 29, 2008

I recently reviewed a $15m project that was struggling. It was already 6 months late and likely to slip another 6 months, yet its risk log contained only three risks, one of which related to delivery. Overall, from a risk (…)

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Railroaded

by jed simms on April 22, 2008

Projects can be likened to trains. If you want to be going northeast but set off on rails leading northwest, you can’t easily just turn right and correct your course. You often have to go back to the start and (…)

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10: Success Triangle

by jed simms on April 8, 2008

Delivery of a project is not the only measure of success that has to be met. There are three different but complementary measures of success — and all three must be met for a project to be deemed fully successful. (…)

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9: The Change Planning Framework

by jed simms on April 1, 2008

Every project is a change project. Even the replacement of your IT infrastructure is a change project. One of the major shifts in thinking the Governance team should bring to a project is that it is a change project. That (…)

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