As senior executives, ensuring that your enterprise software project is successful is essential. Here are a few tips to don't let your enterprise software project go south: Understand the game you are in: Research the number/percentage of enterprise software projects...
Okay, you are appointed as the Project Sponsors of the software implementation projects. You may be a busy C-suite executive with no software project experience. You are scratching your head and asking yourself: How do I oversee a software implementation project...
There can be many ways to reach our destination. Few ways may end up better than others. However, these ways can be equally good too. Then why waste time arguing about choosing the best possible way? More than one way can be equally good! Often, the project team...
The easiest way to make things useless is not to do anything about them. Stop maintaining, and they indeed will become useless. For example, the perfect building, machinery, business process, or software without maintenance will become useless with time. It will...
The Project teams juggle multiple balls (tasks). They often wear multiple hats and pretend that they have got things under control. To demonstrate this, they must have a few balls with them. There should not be anyone waiting for a ball from them. Hence, it is common...
The triple constraints (Budget, Time and Quality) are popular in projects. Therefore, you will find that every Project Status Report (PSR) includes the status of triple constraints. The problem is that the project is often marked as successful if it is delivered on...
There is a cost to managing risk. However, there can also be a cost to not managing risks. There is a cost to increasing the quality. However, there can also be a cost for not improving the quality. There is a cost to hiring a competent project team. However, there...
There can be many reasons why executives struggle to under the ground reality of the organisation. I believe the main reason is that they pretend to behave like a race car driver. They look straight (narrow focus) and lose the 360-degree view. They never see the big...