Project Management

The virus is a staggering challenge for all of humanity. The virus does not recognize borders, companies, politics, skin color or time zones. It is not a government or corporation that will fix this. This is a humanitarian crisis. We need humans to work together now.  The virus works 24/7 and will not stop before a vaccine is developed. Plenty of countries completely missed on how to stop almost 350,000 deaths and over 5 million...

Last year I remotely managed five Digital Transformation projects at the same time. Most were Global and I facilitated five Steering Committees as well. Even if I was in the office, I still managed all the projects remotely. With a decent Wi-Fi connection and a quiet place, I could have done this on a beach! Of course, this has all changed now. The one exception was running business process mapping workshops. I prefer to do that in...

When I was managing the Supply Chain Project team that consolidated the IT systems of 9 hospitals and 23,000 users, the first thing I asked for was to map out business processes.  This would provide all team members with an exact picture of business functionality and also make sure all the technical requirements were included as well. The main reason why IT projects fail are due to inadequate Business Process maps producing poor gap...

I learned about power and influence in the workplace years ago. I was a Senior Buyer at the time in a large Aerospace company, when all of a sudden I inherited a new boss (from the outside). He was about 8 years younger (around 28 years old) than I was.  The odd part was that my current boss was doing a great job, but he was basically forced out of his position (to make room for my new boss) and politely asked to take a leadership...

Managing a large scale IT Project or Program can be like being VP of Operations for a set time.  You are leading a team from various departments. You create project plans from Business cases to reach goals within a given budget and timeline. You are affecting multiple business Process, developing a comprehensive blueprint, testing solutions and finally implementing the solution in a Production Environment. In a nutshell, your...

PHASE – PRE- PROJECT PLANNING Pre-project Planning – Project charter creation. Included are Benefits, Scope, Methodology, Guidelines, high level plan, deliverables, milestones, team structure, RACI chart, Strategy and metrics for RICEFW documents and customization, conversion, testing, infrastructure, security, training change management, assumptions, constraints and conflicts. Project Governance defined – Types of meetings,...