Today I had an appointment with an old work colleague to catch up on things. I had the opportunity to explain what the company I work for does and told him that I was doing a master programme. And, that I need to write an analysis paper on how organizations manage projects. I told him […]
I would like to share some of the realizations I’m making during my research on project management and the project management paradigm advocated by the Project Management Institute (PMI) . As someone who hasn’t managed projects for a living yet, I have a tough time painting a mental picture how projects and portfolios are managed. […]
Today I want to do a quick blog on some enlightenment I got while doing some reading on how organizations can connect business strategies to IT projects. I was reading an article on CIO.com titled “Aligning IT project and business strategies: why you should and how you can” that talks about aligning projects to business […]
Soon I will have to write a paper analysis on how an organization, of my choosing, manages projects. One of the questions that I will need to answer is how they connect business strategies to IT projects. Being someone who writes code for a living and rarely deals with the more managerial aspects of a […]
It’s Friday so, I would like to talk a little bit about why projects fail through some inspiration I got while enjoying some Dilbert comics. 1. Bureaucracy In every organization you have certified experts you need to talk to, regulations to follow and approvals to get. Pretty normal. However, projects suffer when people within organizations […]
During a university lecture today, the lecturer shared a provocative statement, saying that most IT projects are ineffective at delivering value and does not contribute anything useful. Even when a technically sound deliverable has been made, the deliverable provides no value to the business. I would like to argue otherwise. But I’ll get to that. […]
For the past few days I read the following book: This book gives guidance to project managers and organizations on how to manage things they wish to gain by executing a project. These “things” they wish to gain are called benefits in terms of project management and they are managed through something called a Benefits […]
In my last post I touched the topic of benefits a little bit and the fact that an entire framework has been created to manage them. I spent some time today reading more into this and I’m slowly starting to understand what benefits actually are and why organizations want to manage these. At first I […]
Today I would like to focus in short on the whole idea of managing benefits in the context of project management. So what exactly is a benefit? To answer that, I’ll quote the following sentence: “A benefit is defined as a gain realized by the organization and beneficiaries through portfolio, program, or project outputs and […]
So I’m doing a Master programme at Stockholm University on IT Project Management as I have aspirations to understand the business and management processes behind each software application I create as a software engineer. At the time of this writing, I have no prior experience in project management and as part of the programme, I […]
