Monthly Archives: April 2009

Why are more projects failing ?
29 April 09
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Why are more projects failing ?

Standish Group just came out with 2009 edition of their famous CHAOS Report: (text highlighting and underlining is mine) “Boston, Massachusetts, April 23, 2009 - New Standish Group report shows more project failing and less successful projects. The Standish Group’s just-released report, “CHAOS Summary 2009,” “This year’s results show a marked decrease in project success rates, with 32% of all projects succeeding which are delivered on time, on budget, with required features and functions” says Jim Johnson, chairman of The Standish Group, “44% were challenged which are late, over budget, and/or with less than the required features and functions and …more

How does the Customer influence your definition of Quality ?
19 April 09
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How does the Customer influence your definition of Quality ?

Most definitions of ‘Quality’ are very esoteric, quantitative, or routinely bookish and highly cliched. We struggle to connect those definitions to everyday life objects, actions and experiences. We all say that we want quality, but how do we really relate our daily actions to those theoretical definitions? Do these everyday actions effectvely demonstrate our …more

How good is your ‘bad news management’ ?
15 April 09
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How good is your ‘bad news management’ ?

No one likes surprises, least of all executives who might have given high-level commitments on project delivery to their peers in customer organizations, investors or other key stakeholders. I hold Project Managers largely responsible for poor ‘bad news management’. In most cases, there are half-baked estimates that never are a firm basis …more

Art Fry shares views on Failure…
5 April 09
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Art Fry shares views on Failure…

In my previous post When are you planning to fail ?, I argued that early failures were a far more effective learning tool than early successes. Those ‘gentle failures’ could help you avoid, or at least minimize the chances of ‘grand failures’. My colleague from PMI NPDSIG, Kimberly Johnson, shared that post with …more

When are you planning to fail ?
1 April 09
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When are you planning to fail ?

Yes, you read it right…when are you planning to fail ? In the world where insatiable hunger for ‘success’ is an obsessive-complusive disorder (OCD), we don’t think of ‘failure’ much. It is shunned, scoffed at, systematically eliminated (or mitigated, at least), avoided, bypassed, ignored….everything but embraced with open mind and …more

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