Project Management News

• Agile predicts, senses, and responds
  Robert Kaplan sees agile techniques applied to business, where information is leveraged to support prediction and modeling of strategic responses. ...... "It’s also keeping track of competitive forces as well, to be able to offset that. But the front end of agility is information because it’s what you’re being agile with respect to. […]
• Benefits Realisation Plan - Program Management
  Benefits Realisation Plan - Program Management By The Office of Government Commerce - OGC, UK Purpose of the Benefits Realisation Plan Used to track realisation of benefits across the programme Fitness for Purpose Checklist Are the dates by which the benefits should accrue clearly understood and realistic? Are the dates by which the benefits should accrue in […]
• Horse Trading and Project Management
  Horse Trading and Project Management By Marty Davis, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) I asked two of our regular contractors to tell us what doing business in the commercial world is like. They talked about fixed-price contracts, and how this was the way to go to hold down your overall costs. But with a fixed-price contract, [...] [...]
• What is a Business Analyst, by Jan and Derek
  Everyone that writes on the role of the business analyst eventually has to cover their take on what the role actually is about.One of the best artiels I read when doing research for my own position was by Jan Kusiak and Derek Brown. Last year I met Jan at teh BA World conference and had a friendly arguement about the value that a BA should provide. My take w […]
• Status Reports
  Brad Egeland has a post about status reports. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, along with many others. Brad has a nice list of items that should be in a status report.Project titleProject descriptionContact information for key project personnelQuick view high-level status on project, budget, and scheduleRecent tasks completedTasks in progress Upcom […]