Archive for October, 2011

The Butterfly Effect in Project Management – How to Make Disciplined Decisions in Project-based Organizations

This is an article I wrote for PS Village on decision management.

Project-based organizations are investing substantial resources to automate project and service delivery, budget tracking and billing.  Remarkably, little investment is made to ensure that the organization is effectively managing project decisions, project demand and capacity planning. Project decision making and analysis in many organizations is such a poor and unstructured process mired in spreadsheets and informal processes that it often leads to fatal mistakes or crisis situations that could have been prevented. Rudolf explores how the outcome might be different if the management team proactively establishes and communicates formalized decision making processes and best practices based on validated current and historical project status information.

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