New Poll — Corner Cutting in Project Management

Inspired by a post on Sharp End Training’s blog (here), my post (here), and a comment by PM Hut…
FYI, moved to right sidebar

Corner-cutting in Project Management

Elizabeth included this post from Sharp End Training’s blog (here).  I agree with her assessment of the post.  It is a good question but I would have like to seen a take on which corners are typically cut, not why corners were cut.  FWIW, here are my top ten corners typically cut:

Stakeholder management planning
Executing planned [...]

Making sure that your deliverables’ benefits are realized

With all my recent scope management posts lately, here’s a timely post on benefits realization (here) at John Gough’s iJourneys blog (here).  I like the theme of his post, that “…benefit realisation does not start when the project ends.”   I also second his point that IT sees itself as apart from the “business” and [...]

Serendipity in WordPress — the “Related Posts” feature

WordPress added a feature called “Possibly Related Posts” that identifies posts that may be of interest of the readers of one’s post (explained here).  I’ve left the feature on in my blog, but I forgot about it until I saw two new blogs in my “Clicks” stats (from my Triple Constraint posts here and here)
Sit down [...]

More on the Triple Constraint

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 [...]

The relationship among scope, time, resources, quality, etc.

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 [...]

Re-opened: Initiative Success Factor Poll

I got some feedback that it was closed.  Oops…I had forgotten that I had arbitrarily closed it after one week.  Sorry.
Here it is again.  I’ll also maintain a link in the upper right sidebar.

Are PMs finally paying more attention to outcomes?

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 [...]

More on intangible benefits…

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 [...]

Process Models and Use Case co-existence

In a break from the KM roll I’ve been on, I see that Craig at Better Projects has dipped his toes into one of those religious debates: to use process models or use cases (here)?  SAP always has had a strong project process bias, but eSOA and custom development concept is forcing a shotgun marriage of the concepts.  [...]