Project Health Check

- How can we stop Projects going wrong? | Critical Thought & Analysis | Consultancy | Training | Templates | Mild sense of humour

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@DVincentiPMP Always bites you if you skimp on business continuity planning... 👍🏻

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@projectmsuccess D&C: Not me personally, but my last team used google forms and then advertised them on various corporate social media sites

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Best risk tool on the market?

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Do you have separate Risk Reviews in your organisation?

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Couldn’t agree more!

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Do you spell it “program” or “programme”?

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Ever have trouble identifying if work is a projects or programme?

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Ever used Monte Carlo Analysis on your schedule?

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What proportion of your Risks are Opportunities?

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Documenting Risks = Cause - Risk - Effect approach. Because of <Cause>, there is a risk of <Risk>, with an impact of <impact>

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The role of the Programme Manager is to provide clarity from chaos, so that the programme team can unlock their potential and succeed

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Everyone “Too busy”? It means you’ve underestimated the work and have sold your project team a “Death March”

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Lessons Learned: not just about a log of stuff that you should have done differently - but actually making and tracking changes to your systems as a result

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Ever completed a “Route Cause Analysis” (RCA) using the “5 whys” technique?

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Cancelling projects = a good thing. If your org has never cancelled a project then it suggests all wayward projects will continue to waste funding when they no longer have a compelling business case (Ref: PRINCE2 principle “Continued business justification”)

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Great to know my name will appear in the Appendix to the new @PMInstitute “Practice Standard for Scheduling - Third Edition” after my comments were taken on board. Great to participate in developing our profession’s leading publications!

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Ever see the terms Project and Programme excessively applied and misused?

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How to identify “projects” from BAU operations? (Business As Usual)