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Some basic reminder for young people: Never work at risk. First contract approved, then work on it. Play to defensive management game, it means: plan, assess risks & perform actions. Do not play gambling with the customer. Do not commit you, your team or your organization to something you cannot deliver. You have a team: … Read more
We have a tool for contract management activities that implements our processes in a very good manner and that is aligned with our project management best practices. The issue with the tool is very easy, is on a legacy environment. I have been working on an analysis in different directions: looking for market products, study … Read more
Services work with the same rule: services should not offer more value than is being paid for. There is SLAs that measure all the variables your service is measured. The rest is added value you have to play with. To play with them? Right, there are services with the unique objective of provide the outputs … Read more
I assisted to a great session where the different processes related to Occupational Health were reviewed. In summary, so much data to organize, the implementation of the processes depends on the product you choose. In the business case we have for it, we have to cover Europe, a place where our customer is implementing all … Read more
As COTs (Commercial Off-The-Shelf Technology) were listed for 2011, we have listed them and now we are enabling the activities related to the services we provide will be linked to the business goals our customer is looking for. This is a funny exercise for me to design and forecast activities for incoming months. To do … Read more
I have been doing a test strategy (or test plan) document for a project. It has been a funny exercise to help the project manager to do it. I like project management activities and take care of things like this now that I do not manage projects officially is something that makes me be happy. … Read more
I have been involved in some conversations related to these principles and the consequences on the future strategies for the workforce management. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Harbor_Principles It’s interesting the point of the principle where this is a system where the companies are incorporated and where they declare to be agree wth the principles, nevertheless they are not obliged … Read more
Today I have learned a new term of something I know since long time: Front-End Loading (FEL) of a project, it’s the process by which a project team translates its marketing and technological opportunities into capital projects. In other words, during this FEL phase, the questions of Why, What, When, How, Where and Who are … Read more
We started the delivery assurance process on the whole portfolio where the initial objective was to know the status of the projects. After we knew the general status and evolution of them, the next need at portfolio level was clear: now we can prioritize the projects and start opening relevant actions on the key projects. … Read more
Usually, project managers are assigned to a project from the beginning to the end. This strategy has its advantages as continuity and strenght relationships with stakeholders. However, there are other ways to assign project managers. A program manager should consider assigning a more senior PM for the kick-off or initiation phase of a project to … Read more