ISO 9000 Projects – not just paperwork!
12 April 2011 Leave a comment
Excellence is Three Triangles Performance
12 April 2011 Leave a comment
7 December 2010 Leave a comment
The Google search engine has changed. Does it serve the same purpose? Does it serve the same stakeholders as the world thought it did?
Google is no longer the tool that told you where to find the history of snow plows but the top of the list are sites where you can buy them. It doesn’t compare prices but it does favour paid adverts and commercial sites. I don’t know if that was intentional (it will help Google as a business get paid more) or an interpretation of “most people now use the internet to shop” that the press would have us believe. Read more of this post
17 September 2010 Leave a comment
One of my current projects is the consolidation of a diverse collections of legacy “systems” into one end-to-end integrated business system. Why are we doing it? Efficiency. The organisation can streamline its operations and free staff to concentrate on the higher value work they never get to do at the moment (because they are doing things to join up the current systems manually.) Scalability will be a strength for this system. Read more of this post
16 September 2010 Leave a comment
The business commentators have noticed: IT is not giving most businesses the benefits they claim IT should. The projects themselves bring change that the businesses and their people aren’t handling properly. IT projects lock wasteful practices into new systems. The dream and the promises have been broken.
It is so easy to throw stones at IT people. Read more of this post
19 August 2010 Leave a comment
The main part of the communication plan is for communication with stakeholders.
Some preparatory work is needed:
15 July 2010 Leave a comment
Every project has stakeholders. From them we understand the true requirements and critical success factors. If you don’t keep them close, it is very hard to make your project a success.
How close? Close enough that they know where the project is (good or bad) and you know what they really feel about that situation. Painfully close at times. Read more of this post