Focus; (does this sound familiar with anyone?) 1. COMM: (if you don ’ t know where your going any road will take you there) 2. PROCESSES: (tools but no process or standards on how to use them) 3. Financial Reporting (no historical or current costs) (chaos theory the squeaky wheel gets the oil) 4. Scheduling: (Effective Project management can be summed up on two words, repeatability and predictability. Establishing a creating a baseline estimate is PM best practice and is the first step to establish predictability) 5. Scheduling: none 6. Risk: (all projects treated the same regardless of size, cost or complexity) Conclusion from this slide: There are lots of areas of improvement. * Present: Transition one item at a time.
Focus; (does this sound familiar with anyone?) 1. COMM: (if you don ’ t know where your going any road will take you there) 2. PROCESSES: (tools but no process or standards on how to use them) 3. Financial Reporting (no historical or current costs) (chaos theory the squeaky wheel gets the oil) 4. Scheduling: (Effective Project management can be summed up on two words, repeatability and predictability. Establishing a creating a baseline estimate is PM best practice and is the first step to establish predictability) 5. Scheduling: none 6. Risk: (all projects treated the same regardless of size, cost or complexity) Conclusion from this slide: There are lots of areas of improvement. * Present: Transition one item at a time.
… What kind of work environment is created when key result areas are not developed???? Here are some of my observations So here is a question: Does this sound like an organization who is meeting the stated mission statement to complete projects on time and within budget? No, I don’t think so. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Does this sound like an environment where people can get excited about getting assigned to yet another project? It sounds very frustrating to me. Fortunately there’s industry best practices utilized by the previously mentioned organizations which hopefully can make this much easier in the future. My favorite one on this list is: A declaration of the Most important project of the week Transition ½ page at a time.
… What kind of work environment is created when key result areas are not developed???? Here are some of my observations So here is a question: Does this sound like an organization who is meeting the stated mission statement to complete projects on time and within budget? No, I don’t think so. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Does this sound like an environment where people can get excited about getting assigned to yet another project? It sounds very frustrating to me. Fortunately there’s industry best practices utilized by the previously mentioned organizations which hopefully can make this much easier in the future. My favorite one on this list is: A declaration of the Most important project of the week Transition ½ page at a time.
… What kind of work environment is created when key result areas are not developed???? Here are some of my observations So here is a question: Does this sound like an organization who is meeting the stated mission statement to complete projects on time and within budget? No, I don’t think so. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Does this sound like an environment where people can get excited about getting assigned to yet another project? It sounds very frustrating to me. Fortunately there’s industry best practices utilized by the previously mentioned organizations which hopefully can make this much easier in the future. My favorite one on this list is: A declaration of the Most important project of the week Transition ½ page at a time.
Unless a project has all the work identified, estimated and documented on paper, How can you possibly expect to complete the project on time and within budget?
