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February 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:15 PM

So you want to do project recovery?

I am seeing a gathering wave of players in the project recovery market. I have stumbled across a half dozen new companies specializing in it. I have been told about a few management conferences where recovery is being discussed and have certainly been
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:00 PM

"You just don't understand ...."

I find it interesting that every project, well nearly every project, I am asked to recover begins the same way. I go on-site to watch and listen. I see conflict and chaos masquerading as progress. I hear discussions of challenges but no admittance of
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:06 PM

Don't bring a well known solution to an unknown problem

Are you a SCRUM Master? A PMI certified Program Manager? Do you have a quick reference card for for the Microsoft Solution Framework in your wallet? How many prescriptive methodologies do you know? More importantly, have you been repeatedly successful
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:57 PM

Staying out of trouble beats getting out of trouble

People routinely ask me why I focus on recovery instead of prevention. Its true, projects would be far better off avoiding me and my services. That said, the sun will rise tomorrow and projects will falter and fail. Knowing that I will always have customers
Posted by Stcohen | 2 Comments
Saturday, February 09, 2008 5:26 PM

Dealing with uncertainty

Once a project goes far enough off the rails to need recovery it is a good bet that the people involved are making decisions based on fear, uncertainty, and doubt (affectionately referred to as F.U.D) instead of reason, experience, and logic (R.E.a.L.).
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Friday, February 08, 2008 11:55 PM

Build Completely, Test Completely, Deploy Completely

There seems to be no clearer sign of a maturing project than the ability to build/test/deploy daily. The daily build is as close to a universal cure as any process change I can bring to a troubled project. It helps developers by providing a trusted method
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:13 PM

Is it project recovery or project rescue ?

Once a troubled project is recovered the team has learned, matured, and will go on to deliver again. Every now and them I am faced with rescuing instead of recovering a project. Rescued projects are buoyed by the recovery team. They were drowning and
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
 
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