Strategy « A PM's workshop

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 [...]

Risks & Issues

By Eugenio, on July 30th, 2009

Watertight bulkhead

Risks are (measurable) future uncertainties that influence the project’s output.

Issues are already happened facts that reduce the project’s benefits. At the best, in terms of decreasing the available resources; those put away for dealing with the risks’ consequences.

Risks are “potential” issues. The formers, if not properly dealt with, can generate the latter. Once [...]

Fractals for Business Case – presenting “Options”

By Eugenio, on July 17th, 2009

Once the “Reasons” are clearly stated, forming the first version of the baseline, the Business Case needs some solutions for starting the operations with clear guidance.

The “Options” should be in the number of three; these are the main properties:

Every option shall cover (in different ways) the needs forming the “Reasons”
While the core is technical [...]

Best practice(s) and strateg(ies)

By Eugenio, on July 13th, 2009

Like a butterfly with invisible wings

The value of best practice should be measured in its capacity for responding to the needs of a reasonable range of projects; both in quality (different scopes) and dimension (relation between time and budget).

This fundamental requirement is based on the need for maintaining the management’s accountability throughout the whole [...]

Using strategy to avoid a (lost) war

By Eugenio, on July 9th, 2009

Greek phalanx

Like any other enterprise, each project needs a specific strategy.

This word was coined by Ancient Greeks joining the words “army” and “moving”. Logistics has the same origin, and it is the natural companion (an example how available materiel and good intelligence can influence strategy is the “Battle of Kursk”) .

If you like a [...]