Posted on July 11, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Eric Samuels at the SAP Watch blog has an interview with Steve Strout, the new ASUG CEO (here). This post focuses on the recent surge in upgrades in process or completed (the SAP press release is here). A couple of key quotes:
First, it’s an extremely stable release. People are able to do a technical upgrade without [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
I’ve gotten a lot of good comments on my previous post on the Triple Constraint. Just a couple of clarifications, at least from my perspective:
I don’t want to minimize how useful the Triple Constraint is in understanding the basic trade-offs that one must make among scope, time, and resources.
That said, it is a basic heuristic [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Thought-provoking post by mysticMundane on the Triple Constraint (here) – hat-tip to Michael at IT Project Failures (here). IMO, both yielded good insights, with some caveats. The good:
I always like to see quality included as essential to the triple constraint — Michael has the picture here — the scope isn’t delivered unless the work product conforms to requirements.
Scope [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Interesting study reported by siliconrepublic.com (here) on the relative importance of project success measures among the Irish project management community
The most important measure[s] of success among the respondent project managers [were] to achieve organisational objectives (70pc)… and matching stakeholder expectations key for 63pc.
Being on time and on budget were only rated about half as highly, which [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Craig challenged the inclusion of intangible benefits in a business case (here). I replied to his comments, but I thought I’d convert it to a post. Craig commented:
You know, I’m not so much a fan of putting intangible benefits into the business case. Into the presentation and discussions yes. Into the document, not really. How [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Good reminder at PMThink about including intangible benefits in the business case (here). It is a short but spot-on post.
The trick is to re-visit them periodically to make these benefits tangible. Often what makes benefits intangible that they’re hard to measure — e.g., the data may not be available until the deliverables themselves are created.
A listed intangible [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
I’m commenting on the project success checklist at Michael Krigsman’s Project Failure Blog. My comments are scattered among his notes (excerpted below). I’d love to hear your comments on the details behind some of these factors as we go along:
1. Build a business case…
The business case must rigorously state why the project is necessary…
At a minimum the [...]
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