Project Risk Coach

JULY 18, 2016

I learned a lot about how to keep stakeholders happy from my father. In the Deep South, he taught me, “If Mama ain’t happy, nobody is happy!” Daddy had a simple formula for a healthy home with a wife and four children. He found out what made Mama happy and he made sure she had it. Mama valued faith, hope, and love…lots of love.

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Moira Alexander

JULY 18, 2016

Before you can help implement change management, you need to understand what this broadly used term in the context of project management. Change management is a discipline that allows businesses to effectively and precisely identify and document anticipated changes to the business as well as understand how those changes affect individuals in terms of their workflows/processes.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 18, 2016

In project management, the only thing you can be sure of is uncertainty. And change. This is why making ranged estimates for your projects is more realistic and reliable than aiming for a singular deadline. Why? Let’s start with a real-world example. We use ranged estimates all the time in daily life. For example, if someone asks you how long it takes to drive to work, you’ll probably say “between 20 and 35 minutes,” not “23 minutes.

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Herding Cats

JULY 18, 2016

Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit. This notion of the basis of all good discussions. It is also the basis of discussions that get in trouble. For example, I sit in a FAR 34.2/DFARS 234.2 Federal Procurement paradigm and a similar paradigm for Enterprise IT based in ISO 12207, ITIL V3.1, CMMI, or similar governance processes. Both these domains are guided by a Governance framework for spending other people's money, planning for that spend, performing the work, reporting the work, and tak

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Herding Cats

JULY 18, 2016

On our morning ride, the conversation came around to Systems. Some of our group or like me - a techie - a few others are business people in finance and ops. The topic was what's a system and how does that notion impact or world. The retailer in the group had a notion of a system - grocery stores are systems that manage the entire supply chain from field to basket.

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