“The sponsor has lost political power and may no longer be able to support the project”, “Executive X may push for Vendor Y due to family connections”, “The key technical…
Author: Fernando Santiago
Consultant, Trainer and Speaker in Organizational Project Management.
The Triple Constraint, probably the only household term in project management, is no longer in PMBOK
Everyone in the project management profession has talked about this concept. The triple constraint is probably the only term that has been exported outside of project management circles. It is…
The Office of Strategy Management: a Response to the Failure of Portfolio Management in Strategy Execution
The recent Pulse of the Profession on Portfolio Management from PMI calls for elevating Portfolio Management to a strategic level. However, the term “execution of strategy” is not even mentioned…
Your agile project without floating scope is still a monkey under a winter coat
A week ago we all went bananas about a cute monkey wearing a winter coat and wandering into an IKEA store in Toronto. The image was cute, unexpected, so it…
Is your corporate strategy a wishion?
“Wishion” is not a typo. Most companies have Mission and Vision statements that are sound and well written. Sadly, when it comes to strategy, what they have is a “Wish-ion”:…
Top-down is to Portfolio Management what Agile to Project Management
Top-down represents to portfolio management what agile represented to project management. In the mid nineties, as projects in information technology became more volatile and less predictable, most of them were challenged,…