by Cris Casey | Jan 20, 2021 | PMO, Program, Project, Rescue and Recovery
Signs that a project may be headed for trouble (cost overruns, late delivery or quality issues) always occur well in advance of the problems actually taking root. After independently observing companies executing projects and programs over the last 30+ years, here is...
by Cris Casey | Jan 20, 2021 | M&A, Rescue and Recovery
One of my favorite stories of all time is about the turn-of-century (20th) logician and outspoken philosopher Bertrand Russell. Here is a rendition by Jacob Bronocowski from The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, 1979: “[Bertrand] Russell is reputed at a...
by Cris Casey | Jan 20, 2021 | M&A, PMO, Program, Project, Readiness, Rescue and Recovery
It seems obvious: internal initiatives are successful in direct proportion to how ready the organization is to make them a success. But time and time again companies fail to realize full return on their process/technology investments because readiness is improperly...
by Cris Casey | Jan 20, 2021 | Estimation and Planning, PMO, Project
Even Agilists find it hard to argue that the concept of a critical path is not valuable. But for a critical path to be truly useful, in a practical sense, embracing two fundamental characteristics is required. The first characteristic is that the calculated...
by Cris Casey | Jan 20, 2021 | Behavior, PMO, Program, Project
In science and engineering, the signal-to-noise ratio is a measure used to quantify how much a signal has been corrupted by noise. Informally, the ratio can be applied to discussions. “Signal” in this context is the delivery and exchange of content germane to the...
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