One of the things I would like to rant about today is, companies that let themselves be ruled by ‘powerful’ clients. And I don’t mean the Hollywood mafia style of powerful clients. I mean clients that are bigger than the organization they buy products from. Big powerful corporations with multi-billion dollar capital and resources spread […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
