Leadership & Projects
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Kill Complexity – Short and fat projects will save your bottom line
Project portfolio management is not necessarily complex – as a matter of fact, you must do all you possibly can in order not to make it a complex discipline. That is, on the other hand, not an easy task. If we cut to the bone, project portfolio management is only about two things: Overview and decisions
Kill Complexity – Short and fat projects will save your bottom line
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Kill complexity - Lucky wheel in two ways
It requires courage to go for the simple solution and peeling layers of complexity competently off a solution and giving it the necessary edge require insight. Without an edge, the solution gets ordinary and uninteresting, and then it is of no benefit that it is wonderfully simple. The double-sided aim of Kill Complexity is concerned with not introducing unneeded change and removing current complexities. Unneeded complexity kills business.
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Basic governance of projects
The four handles most top level managers install first to get a grip on the projects in their organisations. The article describe why top managers crave to install basic governance of projects, it describes the content of the four handles, discusses implementation issues and points ahead to the more advanced project governance issues after getting in control of the basics in the project realm.
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PRINCE2®
PRINCE2® deals with a large number of the key challenges entailed by project work. Among other things, it deals with basic pitfalls such as the disagreements concerning project organisation and progress that often arise among project managers, project assistants and the established management system and which pose a major risk of misunderstandings concerning responsibilities, powers and obligations if the project is not carried out on the basis of a common model.
PRINCE2® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries.
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Project Governance: Steering Committees that don’t chicken out
Many organisations have made a wholehearted effort to improve the success of their projects. This includes initiatives like training of project managers and building project management methodologies. Having looked across industries of different sizes, global reach and maturity within project management – in our opinion and experience – the single most value creating effort you can do is to improve the work of project steering committees.
Project Governance: Steering Committees that don’t chicken out