Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Project Management Continuous Improvement ...








Project management offices (PMO) perform, at a minimum, an assessment or debriefing of projects during close-out. Those lessons-learned need to be incorporated into a continuous improvement program to drive project management maturity and quality higher. Recent government report demonstrates that lessons-learned from government IT projects are not really learned from until root causes are identified and/or process defects are eliminated. ...

Via IT Week: Project breakdowns avoidable, says MPs report ...

... "Major government IT project failures over the past decade could have been avoided by learning from past mistakes, according to MPs. " ...


Via Committee of Public Accounts, UK Parliament: SEVENTEENTH REPORT: ACHIEVING VALUE FOR MONEY IN THE DELIVERY OF PUBLIC SERVICES ...

... "The Committee has identified seven key areas which departments need to focus on if improvements in the delivery of public services and their efficiency are to be achieved: planning carefully prior to implementation; strengthening project management; " ...

UK government report shows that continuous improvement is necessary to drive project management maturity higher ...

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At 9:59 PM, Blogger Jerry Manas said...

I just watched a wonderful documentary, "March of the Penguins," where each year, the penguins go through this awful, grueling march to their breeding ground, where they stand huddled in icy, windy conditions guarding their recently hatched eggs.

Then the females walk about 150 miles round-trip to get food for their chicks. They can fly and swim, but they choose not to. They walk. Year after year. Many never make it back.

What does it have to do with this PMO report? Simply the fact that, like the penguins, we never seem to learn. Although there are answers right in front of us (or rather, behind us), we choose to keep going about our merry ways, struggling with the same struggles year after year, going through the same rituals.

Oh, how so much can be avoided by simply reviewing past failures. Maybe one day.

 

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