In the End PM 2.0 is About PM 1.0 Done Right
November 6, 2009 @ Herding Cats from Glen B. Alleman
Here's a possible repositioning of the PM 2.0 topic.Not favorable to the PM 2.0 tools vendors, but focused on the project management processes first.
Project Managers need to know a few core items:
- How much will this cost and is that cost inside the budget?
- When are the deliverables due and is the current forecast on or before that date?
- What are the impediments t2o meeting the deliverable date and the forecast cost, and what are the activities to retire, reduce, or mitigate those impediments?
- What resources are needed to produce the deliverables of the project?
Without the answers to these questions in the affirmative every period of measurement (weekly is best), no amount of 2.0-anything is going to help the project stay on schedule, on cost, on specification. PM 2.0 at best is a mechanism to improve the operational processes once these questions have been answered.
Inverting the approach of having PM 2.0 and Web 2.0 be the starting point is a formula for failure on all but the most trivial of projects. By trivial I mean if the project fails no one loses their job.
For all projects where someone will lose their job if success is not reached, the tools are 2nd order at best and likely 3rd order impact on success. Many firms we work with have 10's of millions of $'s of tools - even 2.0 tools - and still fail to deliver within the boundaries of budget and schedule.it ain't the tools...it's the process and people executing the processes.
Tools are a distant 3rd
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