Without defined operational roles and responsibilities, project teams endanger future releases as well as suffer from role confusion. This article provides several recommendations to avoid becoming “lost in transition”.
By implementing a project tailoring tool, the project manager can focus on the key SDLC activities that are applicable to the project.
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This is the sixth in a seven-part series on the Adaptive Project Framework. APF is an approach to a class of projects for which neither the traditional nor the extreme methods are appropriate. APF is entirely compatible with the PMI PMBOK Standards. This series is derived from selected content from the 3rd edition of Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme.
Value Stream Assessment is a high impact, short term, low cost approach to examining an enterprise's business problems with the objective of rapidly identifying a comprehensive solution based on value streams. This shifts the business from being driven by internal operations to being driven by customer needs and satisfiers. It provides high-value feedback to the executives about the business vision, management's alignment with the vision, and the strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise relative to achieving the vision.
The project risk identification and assessment form should be used to assess risks to and their impact on a project. Risks to be identified using this form include scope, timescales, deliverables, resources, milestones and expenditures.
This method of diagramming allows the project manager to facilitate a group session in order to efficiently determine causes of a particular problem affecting the project. Once root causes are identified, appropriate actions toward resolution are more easily identified.
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