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Setting Strategic Project Selection Criteria
This guideline presents strategic categories of selection criteria and discusses how to systematically develop the appropriate criteria for selecting projects in your particular organization. Portfolio projects are frequently the tactics for delivering on strategies that will accomplish the organization's major goals. This makes it important to assess whether the projects we launch are doing that.
The Business-Savvy Project Manager's Leadership RoleAn overview of the role of "business-savvy" project managers' mindset and responsibilities–PMs who lead their teams relentlessly toward the business results a project is meant to achieve. Helps project managers see a critical type of value they can bring to projects and provides guidance for developing new skills and mindsets for new career options.
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This Software Release Lifecycle provides an approach to managing a collection of related projects, a big job that requires important business decisions, coordinated planning, multi-sub-team tracking, critical code integration, multi-phase testing, and much more.
The bundled resources include release manager and team member job descriptions, an overview of the entire process, a WBS to use in planning a software release, and over 70 one-page deliverable guidelines for the key activities in each phase of the SRLC. For each suggested deliverable, the guidelines indicate the purpose, owner/driver, audience, and recommended contents of the deliverable. Learn more »
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Fix It Fast vs. Fix It Right
 Alan S. Koch |
"Root Cause Analysis (RCA) will be our first Quality Improvement initiative." Carl told me. "It fits your definition of 'low-hanging fruit' (within reach and oh-so sweet). Besides, everyone agrees that we would really benefit from doing it right!"
A few months earlier, when I did their Quality Appraisal, RCA stood out as a big opportunity. They were already doing something (this put them light years ahead of most places), but for a number of reasons, they were failing to get any real benefit from it. This was our opportunity! Take an RCA process that was limping along, and turn it into a quality improvement powerhouse. Read More » |
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