People approaching the PMP exam are often daunted by the prospect of learning the Inputs and outputs and tools and techniques of the processes. As an act of pure memory and with a 100% target its a Herculean task. A much more realistic target is to learn the key ones. Key means high chance of […]
SoopToNuts
SOOP to NUTS For many years our company motto has been, ‘Bringing common sense to the seemingly irrational world of people, projects and therefore politics’. Alongside that, our mission continues to be, ‘to improve the state of the art in project management’. But project is wrong in both cases. Our concern is ‘the whole need’. […]
#FlatEarth Explanations of Project Performance
The Earth is Flat. The Earth is the Centre of the Universe… …and equally #FlatEarth…Projects have a clear beginning and a clear end. They are successful when they deliver to cost time and scope. …and…A programme is a temporary flexible organization structure created to coordinate, direct and oversee the implementation of a set of related projects […]
Confusing Vocabulary Obscures Concepts: Verification and Validation
Verification and Validation are two terms sometimes used interchangeably and sometimes used with swapped meaning. The meaning, I think, most widely accepted (e.g. ISO, PMI/ PMBoK, APM & APMBoK, IEEE, BS, DIN…) is: VERIFICATION is in-process – ongoing during development of the product. It means ‘is built to standards’ or ‘matches the specification’. VALIDATION is […]
Concepts and Vocabulary for a P3M Data Model
Control of Portfolio, Program and Project Needs Data To oversee change requires two things. In fact it isn’t change we should single out; it’s governance – full stop. Change is just a part of the whole. The whole is governance. Governance is the care of assets. Typically the care by some people of the assets […]