Comments on: On-Time and On-Budget — but Projects Still Fail http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/10/02/527/ The magazine for the project age Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Bob Ferguson http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/10/02/527/#comment-1701 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:50:37 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/10/02/527/#comment-1701 I wrote an article "A Project Risk Metric" in CrossTalk Apr2005. One of the dimensions of risk was whether the product had a market. And yes, people do develop products for which there is no market (Coke II, Kerbango, et. al.). I recommend "Managing Information Technology for Business Value" by Martin Curley, Intel Press. Curley makes it clear that we are responsible for the business value of our work and suggests a type of maturity model that lets you achieve this nirvana in smaller steps. I wrote an article “A Project Risk Metric” in CrossTalk Apr2005. One of the dimensions of risk was whether the product had a market. And yes, people do develop products for which there is no market (Coke II, Kerbango, et. al.).

I recommend “Managing Information Technology for Business Value” by Martin Curley, Intel Press. Curley makes it clear that we are responsible for the business value of our work and suggests a type of maturity model that lets you achieve this nirvana in smaller steps.

]]> by: Dennis Cohen http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/10/02/527/#comment-1700 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:51:55 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/10/02/527/#comment-1700 In our book, The Project Manager's MBA, Bob Graham and I have tried to tackle this problem by suggesting that everyone on the project team and the outcome lifecycle team have accountablility for the commercial success of the project outcome. This will encourage more focus on the hand-off of the completed asset to the operations team and avoid the kinds of problems highligted above. In our book, The Project Manager’s MBA, Bob Graham and I have tried to tackle this problem by suggesting that everyone on the project team and the outcome lifecycle team have accountablility for the commercial success of the project outcome. This will encourage more focus on the hand-off of the completed asset to the operations team and avoid the kinds of problems highligted above.

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