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One or more of your projects:
- Has no sponsorship or has weak sponsorship
- Has stakeholders who are not involved or are in conflict with each other
- Has mismanaged sponsor and stakeholder expectations
- Has no cost / benefit analysis or has little or no benefit
- Has no charter or scope statement or they’re poorly written
- Is highly visible, risky, over engineered or too complex
- Has vague requirements, incomplete requirements or ones that keep changing
- Has a timeframe that is longer than 6 months or has an unrealistic, mandated timeframe
- Does not have clearly defined deliverables, milestones and metrics
- Has vendors that are not managed effectively
- Has an ineffective project manager or project management methodology
- Is over budget, behind schedule or does not meet user expectations
- Is plagued by poor communication or late failure-warning signals
- Is under staffed or does not include skill sets that match project needs
- Uses an ineffective software development lifecycle
- Uses new technologies or technologies that are not well understood
- Uses poor estimation techniques, ineffective testing processes and little or no quality assurance
- Is outsourced with little or no outsourcing experience
- Used to be outsourced but is being insourced
You'd like to have more control over:
- Projects that drag on and on
- The value you’re getting from projects
- Where your resources spend their time
- The health of your projects
- Where your projects are in the development cycle
- Vendor relationships and performance
Or, maybe you’d just like to:
- Consistently execute projects successfully
- Manage your project portfolio more effectively
- Understand how projects correlate to other projects, the business and technology strategies
- Identify and reduce risk
- Increase IT value
- Develop or customize a usable project management methodology
- Integrate project management and software development life cycle processes
- Align IT and business strategies
- Increase the effectiveness of your leaders and teams
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