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Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:59 PM

Requirements are tools not weapons

Consider these requirements; · The system shall properly calculate the taxes due at the time of payment. · The system shall properly display the location and speed of inbound projectiles. · All users will only be able to change data appropriate to their
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:24 PM

Fighting the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

There are a few reoccurring themes in project recovery;  Hold Fast, Don't Flinch, Lead calmly, and of course the old stand by ... decide slowly but act quickly.  Troubled projects are ripe with Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (affectionately known
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Monday, February 16, 2009 7:49 PM

What’s your projects risk tolerance?

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Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:11 AM

Introducing Project Practice Portfolios

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:34 PM

Implement EXPILCIT Governance

While speaking at the Dr. Dobbs' Architect and Design World conference last week Scott Ambler said "Like it or not you are governed!" Genius in its directness and simplicity and extremely relevant for recovery projects. Many a challenged project struggles
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:52 PM

Project Recovery MUST beat the odds

Predictions of failure rule the industry. Any number of organizations and people look at trends and willingly, no gleefully, declare why projects will fail and, in general, I agree. Lets face it, most projects aren't paid on delivery. Nope, it's by the
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:01 PM

We can make the choices others can't

Me: Why would you do that? Them: You just don't understand Me: Help me understand, what could have possibly driven you away from the <fill in obviously right thing> and to do <fill in obviously wrong thing> Them: Well, it's complicated. There
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:41 PM

It's not about you

Software development is a world full of individual accomplishment and competition. It shouldn't be. Great software comes from great teams. No one person is responsible and no one is irreplaceable. As the industry matures we, as individuals, must also
Posted by Stcohen | 0 Comments
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

&quot;You just don't understand ....&quot;

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
Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:13 PM

During Project Recovery don't expect to educate anyone

Let me propose the 1st Law of Project recovery; Projects are recovered by doing things well, not teaching anyone how to do things. I am a full time consultant. As a matter of fact I can claim to be a professional consult given that I am paid to consult.
Posted by Stcohen | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:10 AM

On every Recovery Project Someone Must Die

OK, First ... ITS A METAPHOR ... so no flames about me really taking a life ... That said; If you have me knocking at your projects door something has gone terribly terribly wrong. Things are so bad that the only thing worse than seeing me is total failure.
Posted by Stcohen | 1 Comments
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