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I passed my PMP exam this month. I read the PMBoK, I did the virtual led training courses offered by the company I work and I did a lot of exams, reviewing concepts and learning the details of the exam reviewing answers and explanations. There is a good bunch of exams on the internet, and … Read more
I have created this table to remind when work performance “whatever” is mentioned:
The work on organizations can be sometimes a completely mess. I’m working on an initiative to turn this “mess” into a more organized and efficient delivery. The basic approach we are following is: To have a clear, complete and detailed organizational chart. Understand what are the governance rules defined by contract with the customer. Define … Read more
I’m engaged on a team where rapid interventions are required to fulfill a specific goal. Basically these interventions are set when an escalation comes from senior customer stakeholder or there are signals of contract breach. The typical cycle of these interventions are composed by a 12 weeks interventions, with weekly reports to the project sponsor … Read more
You organize daily calls and you try to make them effective and efficient. Define the purpose and clear ground rules help to complete them on these 15 minutes. Objective: What did we do yesterday/today, What will we do today/tomorrow, what is blocking us? Agenda: We will use the action list to drive our agenda. Ground-rules: … Read more
POLDAT contains the basic aspects of a contract, independently of the nature, environment or magnitude. It’s an useful tool to enable everybody to work on all aspects of the initiative. For major initiatives, all is included and nobody forgets any of these aspects. For small initiatives, the use of POLDAT as guidance for the definition … Read more
This maturity model is very well known by the project/program/portfolio community and one of the questions I would like to ask, is: once we have done an assessment of the situation we have in our project, program or portfolio, where should I start with? We all have limited resources and we cannot fix all. The … Read more
You can repeat and repeat to your teams: Good delivery and good project performance is the most important thing to retain our customer to continue working with us! But in some cases they will not understand you, some other times they are so focused on their stuff and some others they just don’t care… So … Read more
Read IT projects related to public organizations is useful, the fact that they are public makes that they are a little bit more transparent than private companies. In some cases they add interesting data related to the projects that are a little bit complex to find. In this case the high-level implementation project for an … Read more
I found this SaaS company, and watching their videos, I wanted to dig into more details. They are in the “Marketing Resource Management” magic quadrant. Clear pricing tables. Task management, resource management, capacity management, Gantt charts, agile project management, workflow automation… The solution looks for the major productivity at all levels: in the requirement, design, … Read more