Contingencies & Risks

“Contingency / workaround plans”, or “Exception plan” [3] should be viewed as a stem of the Risk Plan. A bud, which can sprout quickly and strongly, because it has all the information (DNA, if you have a boy who loves biology) is contained in the [...]

What “done” can be defined.

Where to cut

In my post, following a thread created by Craig Brown and developed by Glen Allen, I closed it confessing my difficult to offer a clean definition of what can be defined as “done”. In my mind there is the “Prince2” definition that sounds:

“Everything that has passed the tests based on stately accepted [...]

People: project powerhouse

The production of documents that are not frequently updated and verified through the continuous confrontation with the reality produced by all stakeholders, it is a self-gratification practice. It is the source of pleasure that costs the project’s success and damages [...]

Words and figures at work (making estimations)

The estimation of required efforts is the first (and one of the most important) indicator of the team [...]

Planning and communications

Statue of Liberty structure

The project manager is called in for executing a decision taken by the sponsors. The success (respecting the agreed time and budget) depends on whether he/she has enough power (and ability), to act within clearly established boundaries, or suffer from the inability to manage the requests for changes.

The only possible way [...]