Servania Perspective

A place where I blog about my personal experiences on software development and project management

Author: Andrew Servania

Five Reasons Why Projects Don’t Succeed – Inspired by Dilbert

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 […]

“Most IT Projects are useless and deliver no value” – Bold Statement of The Week

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. […]

Something called “Benefits Realization Framework”

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 […]

Deliverables 2.0. They are called “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 […]

Your Project is Generating Lots of Benefits? Manage Them As Well!

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 […]

What I Know about Project Management So Far

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 […]

A Dive Into the Project Management World

Today I took the time to read the first two chapters of a book considered “the Bible” of project management. The book is called “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge also known as the PMBOK Guide and it was written by an American nonprofit professional organization called Project Management Institute. This is […]

Industry 5.0. My Uniformed Speculation

As technology advances, new manufacturing paradigms are shifted and new ways of producing goods are created. According to an article on Phill Cartwright, executive chairman of the Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS) in the UK, Industry 4.0 is the current industrial revolution we are in and we are slowly but surely moving into the […]

The Double Edged Sword of Digital Transformation.

Today I got my first online lecture from Stockholm University. The company I work for was more than happy to lend me a corner in the parcel reception room to follow the online lecture, which was quite the funny experience. As I had my laptop speakers on full blast, the sound was somewhat echoing in […]

The Digital Revolution of the 20th and 21st Century

According to an article posted on Time (When Did Humans Discover Fire?) it took humans hundreds of thousands of years to discover and master the use of fire. Humans observed how fire can be used as a helpful tool for hunting, walking in the dark, as protection against the freezing elements but also protection against […]