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End-around the Prioritization Process
It took a little time, but we have been successful in getting a key internal group to understand the concepts of prioritizing system / programming requests, and the cost / benefit of doing anything....
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Transitioning Process and Projects
When transitioning projects last week, I realized a nice little payoff for my focus on process and documentation. On the whole, quite an uneventful series of meetings – most of the conversations were...
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Finding shapes in the fog – How to frame a wispy, wandering conversation
An excellent discussion this afternoon, on a fairly complex topic we’re trying to move forward. When dealing with broad system concepts that have been trivialized into TLAs – think CRM, PLM, BPM, TQM,...
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Documentation Redux – a Shorthand Proposal Framework, and the PMO Surprise
McDonald sent a nice comment on my last post – he’s writing a lot about project management lately, and we even chatted about some research he’s doing around boomer flight. Since I don’t get a ton of...
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How to Cheat at the PMO Prioritization Game
Many will say their Project Management Office (PMO) has been established to promote “Best Practices for Project Management” – better work product, alignment with business strategic direction, etc. That...
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Three Business-Case Arguments for Agile, & The Moose On The Table
Another conversation at the start of the new year – this time in our PMO, concerning project prioritization and resource assignments. Many organizations follow a “parallel” model, launching multiple...
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When is a project a Project? How to prevent the buildup of backlogged requests
I just wrote something up (internal wiki) that I thought was common knowledge, but I think it’s one of those soft-skills things that makes total sense once you hear about it – but somebody needs to...
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PMO Nirvana is a Conversation, not a Schedule
We continue to iterate on our PMO processes – managing too few resources and too many project requests, an environment I have consistently seen in every IT group I have ever worked with. Our latest...
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If I Told You a Fractal Solution, Could You Change the CEO’s Mind?
As the new year approaches, debates over the “value” of IT and business projects intensify; it’s not holiday stress, but the excitement of the approaching New [fiscal] Year. Lately, I’m hearing more...
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“Lean” meets “Demand Management” in IT – Managing the Constraints
It has been a few months since I’ve posted, but I haven’t been idle – two significant projects (aside from working very hard at the full-time job), only one of which I can talk a bit about at this...
View ArticleUnleashing Corporate Innovation: Identifying the Constraints
Summary: Corporate innovation struggles, and not from a lack of ideas or capital. More often, the constraints are time and attention. In the world of corporate innovation, most people say that they...
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