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Author: host Created: 8/22/2009 5:34 PM
The PMO Division of Seminole County Florida is formalizing methods that rapidly and effectively evaluate the county?s business needs, and is turning those needs into formal projects. All projects have distinct start and completion points and go through phases or process groups. Meta Group research highlighted in a recent article entitled The High Premium Paid for Poor Quality Business Requirements, the importance of the business requirements phase and process on large-scale pro-jects. Research in 2008 showed how the requirements definition phase of a project consumes only 10% of total project expenditure, while all software pre-coding activities consume around 39%. The study demonstrates that a project manager who believes the quality of requirements received is below average should redo the business requirements instead of moving to the next phase or process group. This is especially true on a large project despite the discomfort this decision would create with business stakeholders. Our Coun

Eight Principles for Project Success 

 
Lawrence P. Leach, PMP may be familiar to some of you since he is a practitioner of Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), a Project Management System I have written about in the past. If anyone is unfamiliar with CCPM, I invite you to read my column in the November 2008 issue of this newsletter. Mr. Leach has spent 30 years in the study and practice of Project Management and has earned Masters’ Degrees in Engineering as well as in Business.  Lawrence is a Certified ‘Jonah’ in the practice of CCPM.
 
In the book, “Lean Project Management: Eight Principles for Success”, Author Leach writes about project success in terms of utilizing 8 principles that lead to successful project results. These 8 Principles are...

 

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