Successful Projects

50% of new products fail because they don’t meet the needs of the target customers and/or are released with significant quality issues.
60-90% of all new products fail to meet customer expectations.
These startling statistics come to us from a 2001 study by The Aberdeen Group.

At the end of the day all the best processes and the most wonderful people mean nothing if you can’t give the customer(s) – either internal, external or both – what they want. I can show you how to get to the next level and really mast the art of project execution – getting the [...]

86% of the work you do is project based. So if you really want to improve your bottom line, stretch your current dollars by improving how well you manage the projects you manage.

Make it a repeatable event. Projects can be successful on a regular, repeatable and predictable basis. They can even be fun, not painful.

It isn’t a panacea. In order to help you execute, the process you choose has to be the right process for your organization – for what you do. But how do you know which of the myriad processes is the right one?!? Let me help you.

Projects are about people. Sure almost all projects are created to solve a technical problem but the problems that arise on a project are almost never about the technology – they are about people and the psycho-social aspect(s) of people working with other people.

I promised a post (or two or three or four) on Action -what to do now that you’ve identified and verified that you have a project in trouble. So here we go….
You’ve identified you have a project in trouble. Now what?!?
Step number one:
Stop EVERYTHING! (if this is not possible recovery can still happen it’s just [...]

So I decided to do a post between knowing when your project is in trouble and action. I thought it might be nice to discuss the causes of troubled projects.
Almost always people issues rarely if ever technology issues!
Failure to plan, or failure to follow the plan
Lack of risk management
Poor communication, both within and without [...]

As I discuss project recovery in more detail I thought it would be nice to share how you know when a project is in trouble. This info comes right out of the materials I gave SoWY Department of Health. What was interesting is that they could identify with many of these symptoms of a project [...]

Yesterday I met with the IT Director for the Wyoming Department of Health. Ostensibly we were meeting to discuss me coming to Cheyenne as a contractor to help them turn around the Wyoming Client Information System – a project with which they have been having a great deal of trouble. It was pretty obvious from [...]