Even the greatest Program Dashboard will not help if you do not use it to manage your portfolio more effectively. Here are 10 critical success factors I have learned in the process of using dashboards to drive successful outcomes on over 3,300 projects and programs…
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So you have decided to create a Program Dashboard. The first thing you do is build a spreadsheet and start using it to collecting data. At the end of the month you brief your results to your executive team – and it falls flat. Why? Because you did not first look at your stakeholders...
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We are at the time of the year when most of us are both measuring the success (or failure) of our 2009 portfolio and finalizing our plans for 2010. A key tool I have used across several industries to manage (business and technological) success is the Program Dashboard. This blog series will share the...
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What will Oracle do with MySQL after they complete their purchase of Sun? Will this cause you to re-think what database platform you use? Will it make you more -- or less -- inclined to use open source? I would like to know...
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It is not sufficient to simply understand the scope of the business problem or opportunity you are trying to address with your community. You also need to identify how you will measure success BEFORE you start building. This enables you to know “where you are going” and plan a route (mapping your community against...
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Many of us use Twitter, a free cloud-based service, to market ourselves and conduct one-to-one business development. Unfortunately, hackers brought Twitter down several times already this month with Denial-of-Service attacks. This begs the question, “when should we invest in obtaining our own clouds—vs. sharing free crowds with others?”…
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Correct isolation of logic in your applications can enable them to “turn on a dime,” rapidly adapting to changing business rules and requirements. Placing logic in the wrong places can lead to spaghetti, long test cycles or (even worse) complete breakage of your data model. This is why “Isolation of Logic by Type" is...
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Based on best practices from RAND and proven with first-hand experience on over $500 million of public and private sector programs, the decision-based government model is an efficient way to implement large, complicated “high change” programs in manner that ensures accountability to all critical stakeholders and creates a culture of ownership and adoption...
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