Prince2 « A PM's workshop

Risk&Opportunity Register structurep

By Eugenio, on October 14th, 2009

“Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.”

The following list has been conceived as shared tool available to all stakeholders. It is the first step toward the full (balanced) involvement of anyone in the effort of delivering the successful project.

The choice of using the same registry for managing Risk and [...]

Risk Register, a lighter version?

By Eugenio, on October 13th, 2009

The temptation of cancelling those sources by changing the labels, from risk to opportunities, reduces the organization’s capacity to deal with any factor that can hamper the outcome.
The benefit offered by the Risk Registry is implicit in the nature of the risk itself. Without any previous reference (history) it is almost impossible to evaluate neither the next trend (proximity) nor the amount of the impact on the [...]

Impact Analysis

By Eugenio, on October 9th, 2009

“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

This quote contains the nightmare of most Project Manager dealing with “issues”.

The necessity of creating and maintaining a high spirit among the stakeholders requires that any message is received and properly analyzed. Therefore, the system (the triad people, processes and technology) for collecting and sifting [...]

Managing issues

By Eugenio, on October 7th, 2009

Waterloo battle's plan

On the Oct. 9th 2009, some items were added to the Issue Register body.

In the yesterday’s post, I finally was able to quote a good definition of “issue”.

Then, the topic was developed about the importance of sharing the same vocabulary for improving the efficiency of the communication.

Issues’ management

It is at the core [...]

Timing

By Eugenio, on October 2nd, 2009

Different departments of the same company have distinct calendars and then meaningful [...]

The value of governance

By Eugenio, on September 30th, 2009

It is not easy for incompetent people to survive in an environment ruled by working governance. Moreover, the required initial investment (sometimes just a frank and thoroughly chat with a senior manager) will yield a lot both in terms of shaping the project’s strategy and on the personal level, just for building stronger [...]

Cultural uniformity

By Eugenio, on August 27th, 2009

A slide rule

When the project involves different countries (either for production or implementation) the richness of different cultures is a huge capital that offers some challenges. Some of them are of logistical nature and could hamper communications.

Assuming the same mindset

When the project is completed within the same geographical area (city) and most of the [...]

Risks and Opportunities

By Eugenio, on August 26th, 2009

Instead of spending energies on devising plans that should deal with any potential problem, the team works in a “ready condition”. Therefore, the Risk (and opportunity) Monitoring will be part of the production [...]

As the time goes by – Managing versions

By Eugenio, on August 14th, 2009

Nice attempt to hide the guest

In our projects, time comes in two versions:

“Fixed” in terms of delivery dates.
“Flowing” like a cursor moving with a uniform velocity on the calendar (toward the milestones).

These truisms are needed for introducing the concept [...]

Applying Kaizen principles to communication

By Eugenio, on August 12th, 2009

Symbols are powerful communication tools

What can “Lean Management” offer for improving communication?

It would be a pretension to present myself as a “lean” expert. My knowledge and experience on this subject is at its very beginning, after a long period of bafflement. My doubts were focused on the difficulties of translating principles conceived for the [...]