How Healthy is Your Project?
- Topics:
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Tags:
- Assessment,
- Strategy,
- Software/Web Development,
- Software Development,
- Project Management,
- Project,
- Productivity,
- Management,
- It service Management,
- It Operations,
- ...
- Source:
- CIBER
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Overview: Even the most meticulously planned and managed project can get into difficulty because it is an amalgamation of people, processes and plans in an ever-changing environment. In most situations it would be very valuable to have a method to assess a project's current state and continued viability. This paper offers a proven, non-quantitative technique for analyzing a project's health and potential risks. For the most part, project managers recognized that the assessment was objective and not a personal attack or condemnation. Not only did the assessments point out areas of risk; but also, by responding to the recommendations, the projects did reduce their risks during subsequent assessments and were much more likely to meet their projected completion targets. As an added benefit, many assessment clients began to incorporate the content of the ten Critical Success Factors into their project management approach. It may be no surprise that this was usually at the request/demand of project sponsor management rather than the technical project organizations. While by no means a formal project management improvement process as defined by the SEI Capability Maturity Model, this project assessment technique can help move an organization in the right direction.
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Format: PDF | Size: 186KB | Date: Sep 2000 | Pages: 9
