How do we assess project success? Before one can answer this question, we need to provide the proper context and the various variables. For example, project success from whose perspective? Do we assess project management success, technical success, or objectives success? What would be the criteria for evaluating success? What would be the criteria for...
Let us repeat the title question: Do project owners need help transforming to lead megaprojects? Studies by the Independent Project Analysis (IPA) and others have clearly identified a few key facts. The facts include project owners that manage their own projects directly, achieve better results than if the projects were managed by external parties. Another...
Many, if not most people in project management know Murphy or Murphy’s Law. According to the Murphy’s Law Website, “If anything can go wrong, it will“. For more information about the origin of this law, visit http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-true.html. What does this mean to us in project management?
This post is specific to Executives, especially those leading Project Owners’s Organizations. How to lead large and complex (mega) projects to success? How you can minimize the chance of delays and overruns and maximizing value to your shareholders? In a recent article, we wrote and recorded video on why project owners organizations are afraid of project management....
I am writing this article with the feeling that I am either courageous or stupid since what I will write about might be touching many or stepping on people soft toes. I must start by saying, I am writing this article based on observations from working in this region (West Asia, GCC) for close to...
As you read this article you replace over budget with behind schedule and overrun with delayed to shift the discussion from cost to schedule and reach the same conclusion. In recent days I have posted on Social Media about delayed mega projects and even did a video on the subject but in Arabic.
In the past, we did write articles about project success and the SUKAD Four Dimensions of Project Success. Today, we share a video. Click on the image to view the video.
We are starting The Number Series with the SUKAD Four Dimensions of Project Success™.
In this post we address two important concepts about project management, which are: How to manage projects in organizations, and How to manage projects successfully. We split these topics since the first deals with the organizational system – policies – procedures – processes – methodology, among other factors. The other topic, deals with offering a...
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