Kiron D. Bondale, PMP is the Manager, Client Services for Solution Q Inc. (
It's the classic Catch-22. If your organization does not spend sufficient time evaluating requests before projects are formally authorized or executed, predictability of project outcomes decreases.
On the other hand, time spent in evaluating requests (especially for those that will never be approved) is often perceived as an opportunity cost. The skills needed to perform the evaluation are likely the same skills needed to staff key projects.
Striking an Agile Balance when Evaluating Project Requests
An Accurate Project Schedule; a Gift that Keeps on Giving!
A project schedule is a foundation tool. For most accidental project managers, the schedule is the plan. Given this, one would expect that on an average active project, the schedule should be current and accurate. Unfortunately, the quality of many project schedules reflects the value placed on them by their creators - a number of the cardinal issues with such schedules have been covered in one of my previous posts. These project managers may state that they are in control of their timelines and their project teams, and hence, the effort associated with keeping project schedules current is not warranted.
I Come to Bury PMOs, Not to Praise Them
PMOs are frequently portrayed as a panacea for an organization's project management issues. Evangelists will pontificate that without this organizational construct, the ability to achieve excellence in project portfolio management (PPM) or project management execution is often unreachable. They may also point to the value of a PMO as an efficient means of gathering, normalizing, and communicating project and resource decision support information.
Overcoming Project Management Super Villains
Delivering our profession often requires super-human effort and, as we all know, a super hero is only as good as the super villains they have to defeat.
This article covers three of the super villains that plague project managers and provides some insights into how to deal with them.
Stealth Projects - Why Should We Care?
A stealth project is an initiative that was never formally sanctioned or approved. This is not a value judgment - many stealth projects are able to deliver worthwhile business outcomes, but at what cost?
Stealth projects have been portrayed as being one of the Four Horseman of the Project Portfolio Management Apocalypse. So why do they survive (and even thrive!) in many organizations?
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