Thinking a well-planned project will ensure success is not good thinking. Planned projects still have a failure rate of 70% for large complex projects, Read how to focus on designing a new project rather than just planning the project.
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Project and Agile/Scrum managers have more executive support, trust, and flexible methodologies. Now they are in a great position to jump into continuous process improvement.
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Using a visual project management approach can be a better option for help team members and stakeholders better grasp complex projects.
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We deal with 71% of our projects failing. Take action! This 3rd part blog series will introduce ideas to reduce project failures. Read how to engage people, improve processes, and leverage technology to improve project success.
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Why do 71% of projects fail? This 2nd part of a blog series will explain what we found as the reason projects fail. Read about the challenges that attribute to failures and why we believe people experience is a big root cause.
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71% of projects fail, according to The Standish Group CHAOS Report. Read how they showed that out of all projects, 71% failed to meet these three criteria: on time, on budget, and satisfactory results. What about your projects?
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We can improve project and program portfolio results with visualizing and executing good processes. Let's think about how our brain works. Read on to learn about how visual processes are more powerful than task lists.
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We all deal with daily tasks, such as preparing for a meeting or creating a deliverable. The problem is that the word "task" is too finite or individualistic. What if our tasks are related to each other? Should we care? Maybe we don't if our only objective is to knock them off our list. But,”.
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We have released version 5.4 to our customers. This release includes a few features and improvements and fixes a lot of bugs. Key improvements includes better resource forecasting and a new help center.
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Most enterprise initiatives are driven by projects. Are we considering sustainability when establishing project methodology and process planning?
I'm compelled to bring up this topic this week since it's in the news, so it's a good time to start discussing how we can focus on sustainability process steps in our projects.
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Most project managers shout about on time and on budget as the most important factors. However, what happens if you survey directors and Project Management Office leaders and ask which is more important: speed/cost or end results. Their answer may surprise you. Check out the survey results.
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Ingredients can make or break a project. The right ingredients and the approach to making the ingredients work well together will produce great end-project results. Read this post for the top 10 ingredients.
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The top ten are: 10 - Struck by a macaw, 9 - Swimming-pool of prison as the place of occurrence, 8 - Walking into a lamppost, 7 - bitten by pig, It just gets funnier. Check out the other 6 wacky codes...
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Many of us in the process and project world are blind to the idea that content is at the core of what we do. How many meetings have you been to that focused on the work methodology and process content rather than timelines and budgets? Read how this reverse logic hurts project end results.
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Do people leaving your organization take their knowledge and expertise with them? This is a huge problem for businesses that lay off people, or have people retiring without any process or method for capturing and sharing their knowledge.
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Over the years, reports from the Standish Group and others have found that close to 70% of projects fail to meet expectations and very large software projects have only a 6% success rate...
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Easy-as-pie projects! Why do so many project tools are designed with lists of data and text? Today, we have more complex projects and more people joining projects. Learn why few have the time and the patience to learn how to use these out-of-date tools.
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Organizations try to get work done either from memory, or by "reinventing the wheel". Does that happen at your company? For some people, it’s much easier to create something from scratch than to hunt down something that’s reusable. But. that's wasteful. Read how to improve...
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A recent Harvard Business Review blog post states that the excitement about disruptive innovation has blinded us to one simple irrefutable economic fact: The vast majority of profit from innovation does not come from the initial disruption; it comes from... (Read to find out!)
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What’s needed is a smart and dynamic place for your knowledge. It needs to be easy for your teams to get instant access to the details of how to get work done well and why they are doing it.
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