Category Archives: risk
Getting Started In Risk Management
A client recently described an interesting situation – she had purchasing the new ISO31000 risk management standard, she had done the training with her team, conducted a risk identification and assessment workshop, and done the analysis and prioritization. Yet no … Continue reading
Filed under alignment, attitude, CMMI, Effectiveness & Efficiency, improvement, ISO31000, manager, method, metrics, organization change, PMO, project management, risk
Improve your PMO effectiveness by walking around
As a PMO member, probably one of the most productive things you could do for your customers is to get out from your desk and get into businessland. By physically staying in the PMO team area (and let’s face it … Continue reading
Project Performance KPIs – PMO Effectiveness
Rather than some tirade on why metrics are so great for projects, let’s just list some critical ones: Schedule – Planned vrs Actual – preferably via Earned Value Functional – % designed, implemented, tested, released Delivery on Time – Milestones … Continue reading
Filed under alignment, CMMI, defects, Effectiveness & Efficiency, improvement, ISO9001, KPI, method, metrics, people, PMO, problems, project management, risk, ROI, software quality, templates
Improve Your Business With A Quality Management System Review
Once in a while it’s good to review your quality/business management system (structure, processes, requirements, etc) – we’ll focus on processes for the moment. The relevance of processes is critical. They must be useful to your staff, customers, partners and … Continue reading
Filed under alignment, appraisals, audits, CMMI, improvement, ISO9001, KPI, method, metrics, organization change, people, PMO, problems, process improvement, product quality, risk, ROI, strategy, templates
Project Kickoffs Improve Performance
I was recently asked about why project kickoffs are important – surely people could just read the Project Management Plan and Project Charter. Nice in theory – rather more difficult in practice. It’s always better to get everyone in a … Continue reading
Filed under improvement, PMO, project management, risk, startup
Agile Risk Management
Apart from using a ‘Top 10′ risk method, what else can we do to manage risks in software intensive projects? The normal approach to managing risk is to identify context/scope identify risks/opportunities prioritise and determine mitigation actions and budget launch … Continue reading
Filed under agile, improvement, people, problems, risk
Risks and Opportunities
As we discussed in a previous post, risks are one of the staples of project management these days. It is seen as an indispensable part of running projects, programs, and organizations in general. It is part of PMBOK, PRINCE2 and … Continue reading
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Software Project Risk Management: how far we have come
Risk Management is seen today as an essential part of project and program management within software projects. Of course it wasn’t always like this – just 12 years ago we conducted a survey of IT organizations and how well (and … Continue reading
Filed under improvement, risk, software quality, templates
