Project managers live a life of change, from project to project, from stakeholder to stakeholder, from team to team, from technology to technology. That means periodic searches for new opportunities to stay employed, leverage your talents and build your skills … Read the rest ...
Author Archives: Drew Davison
Lessons from Small Projects Are Scalable
According to a 2012 Gartner study, “Small is beautiful — or at least small projects are easier to manage and execute. The failure rate of large IT projects with budgets exceeding $1 million was found to be almost 50% higher … Read the rest ...
Five Ways to Sustain a Change
We work our butts off to implement a successful project. We ensure key stakeholders are actively involved. We keep the needs of our customers front and center. We apply best practices, as appropriate, to deliver better, faster and more cost-effectively. … Read the rest ...
Slicing and Dicing for Project Success
Change is all around us these days. Disruptive competition is the norm. Organizations are frequently challenged to launch changes that are outside of their comfort zones, at odds with their cultures and beyond their skills and capabilities. So what should … Read the rest ...
Ignore These Seven Lessons at Your Project’s Peril
I have a passion for proven best practices. They are the collective wisdom of others who have gone before. They can improve performance, reduce risk, accelerate delivery and increase satisfaction. They can be revised or discarded as appropriate. New ones … Read the rest ...
Transforming Projects with Architecture
Architecture has had a significant impact on humanity over the centuries, whether in the form of planned structures, environments, societies, frameworks or technologies. In the technology sphere, architectural practices have contributed to everything from chip designs, to communication protocols to … Read the rest ...
Project Management Meets Design Thinking
The practice of Design Thinking has received accolades for transforming the way organizations solve problems. At the core, Design Thinking is about driving decision making from the human perspective, where business, organizational and technological solutions evolve from a human-centered exploration.… Read the rest ...
The Six Secrets of Project Prosperity
Imagine this. Your boss asks you to work with eight countries in West Africa. The assignment: to support the establishment of practices for the effective and equitable operation of microfinance lending to small and medium size business clients in the … Read the rest ...
Uncommitted Sponsors
We know that actively engaged sponsors are a critical success factor in effective project delivery. But, most senior executives who must assume the sponsor mantle are anything but actively engaged. At least initially. I call them the uncommitted sponsors!
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The Power of One
It’s easy to follow routines. But, good things often happen when someone senses an opportunity, deviates from the well-worn path and chooses to follow a new road to an uncertain but potentially brighter future, bringing others on the journey as … Read the rest ...