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In this issue we're offering three articles on Project Control.
Project Control – Addressing the Challenges By: Delene Bosch
How well do organizations perform project control? Not very well according to recent surveys. Standish Group’s latest “Chaos” report states that only 28% of IT projects are deemed a complete success. This figure is rather alarming for organizations trying to increase organizational value through the completion of strategic projects.
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Get What You Inspect
Maximizing Expected Project Value By: Paul McDowell
All project initiatives are susceptible to cost overruns and schedule slippage. Many projects are deemed failures due to budget overruns or when the budget is spent but the project has not delivered the value originally promised. Organizations today are addressing these issues by enhancing their project control practices.
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Turning Project Data into Valuable Decision Making Information By: KLR EPM Team
Project reporting should provide project managers and stakeholders with succinct information to allow them to make informed decisions while keeping their projects on track. The increased focus on ROI has created a greater need for project data to be analyzed and monitored. The biggest challenge is taking the vast amount of data available and turning it into useful information.
KLR will be giving 3 presentations at the ProjectWorld / Business Analyst World Conference in Vancouver in November.
Ken Robertson, Keith Gibson and Michael Treasure will will be presenting at the Symposium Track Session on November 15 and 16 at the ProjectWorld / Business Analyst World Conference in the Vancouver Convention Centre. The presentations will be:
Gaining Executive Management Support for Portfolio Management (Ken Robertson)
How to Stop the Project and Keep Your Job (Keith Gibson)
Words of Wisdom...
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. “ -
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do!" - Theodore Roosevelt
“The object is not to see through one another, but to see one another through.” - Peter DeVries
“The power of a waterfall is nothing but a lot of drips working together.” - Anonymous
How About a Little Humor?...
Top 10 Things a Project Manager Should Never Say to a Customer
10.
If you're as confused as I am then you know as much as I do.
9.
Don't worry it's easier than it looks.
8.
I'm not sure what happened, it worked last time.
7.
Implementation? We'll worry about that when we get to it.
6.
The problem is we have too much work for too few people.
5.
My last project was a complete disaster.
4.
We can deliver much earlier than you're asking for.
