Gaps In Existing Solutions Lead To Lost Productivity
In the previous article we discussed how existing Work/Project Management solutions are lacking in the Viable capabilities needed to effectively manage Projects and that this leads to the use of a lot of separate systems and manual work arounds. This in turn results in lost productivity, increased costs and increased Project Execution Risk. Let’s look […]
No Single Project Management Solution Has The Functionality To Properly Manage Projects
It is common for companies to use as many as 10-20 different pieces of software to manage all of their Work Items, Projects and Programs. I constantly hear complaints from Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and others about how much of a pain this makes it to do their jobs. In addition, the CIO’s […]
The Cost of Project Failure
Let’s face it, over the course of our career, virtually all of us will experience at least one project that will, in one way or another, be deemed a failure. So how do we even define project failure? I personally find it surprising how many different ways people and organizations define project failure. Let’s look […]
Why Projects Fail
In the previous article, we discussed the costs of project failure and provided a lot of statistics related to those costs as well as examples of some specific project failures. In this article we are going to take an initial look at Why Projects Fail. General Causes of Project Failure A few years ago, in […]
Why Has No One Else Built It?
If Existing Work/Project Management Tools Don’t Cut It, Why Hasn’t Someone Already Built a Better One? In a previous article I talked about one of the main questions that we get asked at Proceve, which is, “Why are we building yet another Work/Project Management tool?” The answer to which, is that the existing tools just […]
Why Build Yet Another Project Management Tool?
Existing Work/Project Management Applications Don’t Cut It So one of the questions I’m often asked is “Given that there are so many Work/Task/Project (pick your term of the day) Management solutions in the market, why did we choose to build another one at Proceve?” Well the answer to that is pretty simple. None of the […]
Existing Project Management Software Can’t Manage Change
As we have seen in previous articles, and I am sure anyone who has worked on any project, at any scale, has seen first hand, Objectives and Requirements change all the time! These changes and the inability to manage them is the single biggest cause of Project Failure. Minimum Requirements For Managing Change To effectively […]
Existing Project Management Tools Can’t Organize Work Items Adequately
OK, raise your hand if in your projects you regularly find yourself trying to create complex naming schemas, tagging mechanisms or other ways to organize all of the work items or project artifacts you need to manage. Those of you who didn’t raise your hand are probably only dealing with really small projects with small […]