Archive for 'PM Process and EPM' Category
Anatomy of a runaway IT project
17 June 2008“Over the past two weeks, I’ve conducted confidential off-site group interviews with all of the ABC consultants working on the FUBAR project. I did this at [ABC manager’s] request, after a few of these consultants spoke privately about FUBAR with him. The feedback was consistent and raises serious doubts about whether the FUBAR project, as […]
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Microsoft Project Conference 2007 Presentations
23 April 2008
You can find the presentations from the Microsoft Office Project Conference 2007 (European version) at:
http://www.ineventmedia.com/msprojectfinalupload/
Now these are just the slides and a lot of Good Stuff was either spoken, asked/answered or part of a demo. Based on just the slides, I will highlight the following:
- BP301 Managing Security in the EPM Solution by Phil Smail
- SA209 Project Server Disaster Recovery by Steven Haden and Christophe Fiessinger
- SA200 Chalk Talk: Project 2007 Common Questions and Answers by Adrian Jenkins
- SA201 Administration of an EPM solution by Adrian Jenkins (Brian Smith delivered this in Seattle)
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Progressive Elaboration in EPM Deployment
17 April 2008PMI defines “Progressive Elaboration” in PMBOK 3rd Ed as:
“Progressive elaboration means developing in steps, and continuing by increments. For example, the project scope will be broadly described early in the project and made more explicit and detailed as the project team develops a better and more complete understanding of the objectives and deliverables. Progressive elaboration should not be confused with the scope creep.”
Any EPM project is not perfect from start to finish. One has to go through lots of challenges.
There are four key elements for any new system introduction to an environment.
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One can either go through all these in one-go, provided you get the required resources or iterate through these one after another over time. With any new system, availability should come first. This makes the system visible to your community. You also get chance of incorporating their feedback (progressively elaborate). Then you progress with other options. Again you make decisions based on resources availability (not MSPS resources availabilityJ) & business demands in your organization.
In such situations your best bet is to go with “Progressive Elaboration” of your project. You start with something based on the availability of the resources. Then as the project progresses you keep on elucidating the intricacies of the system. That said you refine it over time.
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