The scope of the Impact Analysis

This post is dedicated to the quantitative aspect of the issues and then the risks. Therefore, it serves to give the price tag (i.e. impact on the budget) that will be multiplied for the likelihood. The qualitative aspect is managed through sifting the event through the categories .

Working with the Newton’s laws of motion

Dealing with [...]

Impact Analysis

“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

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 [...]

Issue and Risks

Very often, the definition and then techniques for managing issues (from their capture to the sort of process that will be fired by them) in Project and Risks manuals is quite blurred. In essence “issue” is averagely considered a prim definition of the problem. Namely, it can fall in the class of communications’ elements. Issues, then, should be managed through a risk-like process that will flow into the existing processes (e.g. Change, Risk, HR [...]

Timing

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

The value of governance

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 [...]

Pragmatism, virtue and risk

If a project manager is not able to deliver the information about the current situation without limiting the communication to the bare facts described with technical lingo, it is difficult to explain the reason of being there for [...]

Risk and Triage

Three labels indicate the risk’s probability:

1. proven
2. probable
3. [...]

Rules and apples

Firing people

Apples fell before Newton’s formulation of gravitation theory.
This affirmation could sound obvious. However, this wants to introduce a serious problem in quality of management. The case has been clearly described by Tom L. Barnett in “Second Chances” post.
Rules cannot change our surrounding reality. Laws can only help our communities (project’s team is just [...]

Vision and mistakes

Vision helps us in two complementary ways. What we are doing and why.
Everything that does not match with the vision (duly translated into the daily reality) can be labeled as error. Without a clear and shared concept of what is needed for reaching the target, there is no way for defining, measuring and repair the [...]