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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

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

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Why you shouldn’t want it all

If you had a list of 10 things that you could do, but you only had resources to do 5, how would you go about picking which 5? How would you pick the 5 you would do? And more importantly, how would you pick which 5 you would NOT do? I've been there. A world of infinite possibilities! And by comparison, infinitesimal resources. When I find myself in that space, I use a simple, straightforward…

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February 4, 2019