Tag: Project Management
IT Current State Assessment
Business Growth, Change Management, Cybersecurity, Governance and Compliance, Not-for-Profit, Project Management, Risk, Strategy, TechnologyI’ve worked with not-for-profit and community organisations for years. The pattern is relatively consistent: technology initiatives operate separately from organisational strategy, creating inefficiencies that compound over time. Recently I worked with an NFP to deliver a comprehensive Current State Assessment for their IT function. The process revealed where things were working, where they weren’t and…
Effective business analysis techniques
“Can you run Google Ads for us?” “We need a new website.” “Our competitor just launched on TikTok – should we be there too?” These are tactical requests masquerading as strategy. They skip the fundamental questions: where are we now, where do we want to be, who are our customers, who are our competitors and…
Digital Transformation, the latest buzzword
With news last week of a decade-old incomplete $340m federal government transformation, let’s talk about Digital Transformation because it seems like every organisation is trying to do one these days. Talk about a buzzword! According to a 2022 McKinsey & Co study, a majority of transformation projects fall short of expectations, often with profound consequences.…
Waterfall or Agile?
A couple of years ago I was asked by a client if they should “Go Agile”. I just stumbled on this graphic which perfectly sums up my response at the time. Basically, if your organisation has a fixed budget, fixed timeframe and fixed set of deliverables, that’s pretty much what Waterfall was designed for and…
