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How to Measure Project Success

Ilya Pozin has written an article on inc.com that discusses how to be more efficient in a project and how to ensure that your team knows what success should look like. This article gives a good way to decompose aspects of project success, but I found myself thirsting...

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The Measurement Inversion

Think about the last time your company was faced with an investment in information technology – as an example. Perhaps you were deciding on a CRM platform, an upgrade to your replenishment or logistics software… – you can imagine such a scenario.  Regardless of the...

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NIST 800-30 still has defenders

Jack Jones, the inventor of the FAIR method for assessing cybersecurity risk, comments on a defense of NIST 800-30 by someone who commented on one of his blogs.  I take Jack's side on this.  For those of you who have read my books, NIST 800-30 is one of the standards...

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Where Standards are Worth Over $1 Billion

Hubbard Decision Research showed how standards are worth more than $1 billion per year in the insurance industry.  ACORD is a not-for-profit association created by the insurance industry to facilitate the development of standards for its members. Most major insurance...

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Snow Daze

It has been a heck of a winter for Portland, OR. The city has had nine school closure days due to snow and other winter weather. Per local reports, the metro area has been effectively shut down on many of these days. Portland’s transportation bureau budgets $300K a...

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Project Management/Project Risk is the #1 Measurement Challenge

According to our recently completed “Measurement Challenges” survey, project risk and project management-related issues are the #1 most frequently identified measurement challenges, followed closely by change management and organizational transformation.  The survey...

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