Project Management Thinking

Choose strategic projects by...

• Focusing on organisational goals
• Categorising
• Doing financial analysis

A well-defined project plan is...

• Easy to understand
• Easy to read
• Communicated to all (real stakeholders and involved actors)
• Commensurate with project size, complexity, accuracy
• Prepared by the team

Change happens because...

• Something was left out
• We misunderstood something
• The environment changes
• The organisation changes
• The technology changes
• Everything changes
• Unrealistic expectations of clients/users/customers
• Funding, deadline, time limits change.

Dealing with changes...

• Have a change policy (if you make a change then something else happens)
• Anticipate change (it's going to happen anyway so plan for it)
• Seek change (it's bubbling under the surface, is going to happen, so make it happen)

Risk management

• Identify
• Ones you can quantify
• Ones that are qualitative
• Respond (to reasonable expectation i.e. loss x probability of occurring)

Risk factors

• Changing environment
• Group think
• Change management
• Time (lack)
• Irrationality
• Gilding the lily
• Not communicating
• Not delivering increments
• Unrealistic expectations

Things to do

• Lead
• Learn
• Listen
• Talk
• work with people
• Change
• Risk