Like all good project professionals, whenever I’m managing a project I find it’s essential to keep a track of intended and incidental Benefits, Lessons learned, key Actions, and of course … Continue reading Questioning the RAID log
Category: Project management
Projects need to think beyond outputs
A common distinction made between projects and programmes is that projects deliver outputs (things) whereas programmes deliver outcomes (benefits). I think this is a dangerous separation, particularly in digital projects … Continue reading Projects need to think beyond outputs
The distorted lens of risk registers
Where do you list your project risks? The more traditional project management approach tells us to use a risk register, and that’s certainly what happens in a lot of projects. … Continue reading The distorted lens of risk registers
Deal with the showstoppers first
It’s never nice being the people who tell stakeholders No, and we IT people certainly have a long history of that. But even with more collaborative ways of working we … Continue reading Deal with the showstoppers first
Frequent delivery generates opportunities
Frequent delivery throughout a project doesn’t only allow you to test your product and manage the uncertainty of a big bang launch. It also opens up the possibility of unexpected … Continue reading Frequent delivery generates opportunities
Getting partial value from partial delivery
A test of whether we are getting the most out of agile is whether we can get partial value from partial delivery. Often I hear people in delivery teams say … Continue reading Getting partial value from partial delivery
Is your risk register helpful?
Often when I talk about unhelpful entries in risk registers there is some disbelief from the people I’m talking to. I present some examples, and people’s first reaction is “but … Continue reading Is your risk register helpful?
Prespectives
Simple ideas can be powerful. Last week Niels Malotaux introduced me to the “prespective”—the idea that instead of waiting to the end of an iteration to look back on what … Continue reading Prespectives
Make a burn-up chart in Google Sheets… the easy way
[Update 20 Nov 2018: The very latest version of the Google Sheet for creating burn-up charts is available at Github. It also has detailed instructions. Please go there instead. Otherwise … Continue reading Make a burn-up chart in Google Sheets… the easy way
Elevating resource demands to a business question
It’s not just pure technical decisions which are business decisions. I’ve written before about how your architecture impacts your business strategy, but the same can be said of other aspects … Continue reading Elevating resource demands to a business question
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