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Risks and strategy

By Eugenio, on January 26th, 2010

The physical feasibility (e.g. technology, capacity or capability) is the primary source of risks. The management’s wrong judgment of the former is the second one.
From this premise, the Business Case should univocally establish the “owner” of the solution. Therefore, this declaration cannot be left the orphan .This means that level of the producing organization’ mastery of the technology / production’s process / capacity has to be indicated as one of the key elements on which the strategy has been [...]

Honing stakeholders’ analysis

By Eugenio, on October 20th, 2009

…in order to make “real” things (either functions or reports) information is needed. Some data are essential in order to grant the necessary quality others are necessary for presenting the result in the best possible way.
People with technical background (e.g. with no specific training in sales and or negotiations) usually tend to focus on the delivery, with less attention to the factors that can influence the [...]

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 [...]

Risk and leadership (art of delivering decisions)

By Eugenio, on August 13th, 2009

Leading is about direction

Since the leadership is classified as source of risk, it is essential to understand it and then find, if possible, a simple way for measuring its efficacy through the evaluation of results.
Merriam Webster’s definition: “capacity to lead”.
In a project environment, this should be focused on the stakeholders’ relationships. In particular [...]

Managing Risks and Stakeholders

By Eugenio, on August 6th, 2009

Stakeholders are the major sources of risks.

A good chart remains essential

In order to frame this provocative statement, some citations are useful:
Stakeholders:“Individuals and organizations that are actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected as a result of project execution or project completion. They may also exert influence over [...]

Managing information

By Eugenio, on August 3rd, 2009

Organizations need concepts for building their system dedicated to convey “energized” information from the bridge to the engine room. In this voyage, information shall be transformed without losing the energy that gives significance the [...]

What “done” can be defined.

By Eugenio, on July 29th, 2009

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 [...]

Doing some maintenance to the “crystall ball”

By Eugenio, on July 8th, 2009

Enjoy the game!

The estimations represent the deadliest risk for any IT professional. The first reason for this is the “battle ground” between technical people with customers. It represents the collision between the power of knowledge and money.

IT people are a special kind of technical people, we are proud of our creativity. Like the Polynesian [...]

Gantt & stakeholders’ time(s)

By Eugenio, on July 2nd, 2009

Gear wheels (respect and smile are the best lubricants)

It is an adult post. It starts with bees, birds and flowers.

It is not easy to apply these models to stakeholders’ taxonomy. However, these models represent three different conceptions about time (a nice post about it).

The project’s “external” stakeholders have jobs outside the IT industry. Furthermore, [...]

Understanding sponsors’ priorities

By Eugenio, on June 25th, 2009

The Business Case contains the list of benefits produced to the business by the project.
Is it possible from this reading, to understand which are the forces that will trace the project’s path?

Can the benefits offer a substantial view of the customers?
Are they the most influential slice of the Stakeholder?
Will the composition of stakeholders [...]