Implementation

Best Practices for Marathon Projects

Since large scale enterprise-wide projects are often referred to as ‘marathons’, I wanted to offer my thoughts from a former runner’s...

White Paper: Preempting Project Failure

Most organizations do not anticipate project failure. Instead, they plan for success, governed by budget, next step deliverables,...

How to Conduct Project Health Assessments

How do you know if project failure lies ahead? Often you don’t. But if you stand back and look at the situation as if you were watching...

Best Practice for Business Transformation Projects

From a project management perspective, transformation projects resemble most large scale technology or system implementations because at...

Best Practices for Software Implementation Success

If you work in the business world, you have likely heard of or experienced horror stories with complex software implementations that...

A Framework for Software Customization Analysis

Software implementation project teams have long advocated ‘vanilla’ as the preferred flavor for packaged software implementations. But...