Plexecution was a term I first heard from the woman who ran the Program Management Office in an IT organization I led. I’m not sure if she coined the term but it was her way of asking whether we had done sufficient planning or whether we had launched into execution and then decided we really ought to do some planning. Now planning…
How many IT initiatives should you have on the go at any one time? Not a simple question to answer but you need to consider the trade-offs between resource utilization and elongation of individual projects. Let me illustrate the consequences of poor optimization through a simple example. Let’s suppose I have one IT analyst at a cost of $100,000 per year. I…