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Requirements are for people who don’t know what they’re doing

Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay Does this situation sound familiar? Things are going along just fine. And then they're not. There's a glitch, a bug in the system. Digging into the situation, you discover that the people who implemented the system didn't understand what the system was really intended to do. And then you hear the implementation team say something like, "Well, that wasn't in the requirements." And they're not wrong. It wasn't in…

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April 2, 2019

Foundation

Starting the Journey

This is the final post in a series of five covering the Straightforward Consulting approach to strategic planning. By now you know that the entrepreneurial-focused Straightforward Consulting approach to strategic planning and project management is vastly different from the traditional MBA and PMI approaches. And if you're still not convinced, feel free to compare the 12 simple steps from the last post with PMI's 980+ page tome written in their own foreign language, covering their…

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March 26, 2019

Finally, strategic planning and project management for real people

This post is part four in a series of five covering the Straightforward Consulting approach to strategic planning. I've seen way too many strategic plans just sitting around collecting dust. And from my perspective, the reasons for that are as simple as this formula: Good intentions + bad focus in process + lousy execution = waste of time and money Good Intentions The previous article detailed the underlying issues with the MBA and PMI approaches…

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March 19, 2019