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business benefits

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Three Business-Case Arguments for Agile, & The Moose On The Table

By ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 projects at any one time and working concurrently to move things forward. To be fair, this often occurs because we start work on one or two [...]

Science, with some elements of Inspiration
Defining the Business Value of a Project

By ⋅ October 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m following a project management meme lately; while freely admitting that I’m oversimplifying some complex topics, I will forge ahead with … project “value”. At work, we’ve been talking about the classic challenge of putting a business value on a project. I call it a “classic” challenge because it’s a basic requirement for every prioritization [...]

Inspiration, with some elements of Art
Sell your Boss – Some Tech Observations

By ⋅ January 30, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Saw this great post from Hyatt (referred from this blog, definitely worth syndicating) re: how to get decisions / results out of your manager / boss. Great stuff, pay attention to the details here, all of it is right on. A few additions I’d make to the list … Keep it short – just like [...]

Science, with some elements of Art
System not system

By ⋅ November 14, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting dynamic in a meeting this week. For one fairly important project, we’ve spent a lot of time educating the business process owners, as well as the ultimate end-users, that this is not an IT project, even though we are implementing a new ERP system. This has been the message since the beginning, but the [...]

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