Chief Collaboration Officer

What would you NOT do if you knew you couldn’t succeed?

An old motivational question goes, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” Well let’s turn it on its head. What would you NOT do if you knew you couldn’t succeed?

Consider that over half of all software projects either fail outright or end up costing so much, taking so long, or returning so little, that they end up not having been worth the time, money, and energy to do in the first place.  It would have been better for the company if they had never been approved and funded.

If we acknowledge that every major project we undertake starts with a greater probability of failure than of success, it would seem that we would also be interested in knowing more about the circumstances that lead to project failure, so we can try really hard to avoid those circumstances.  By doing this we could, to the best of our ability, improve our chances for success.

Project Portfolio Excellence provides tools, techniques, strategy, and methodology to enable a structured approach to the evaluation, selection, prioritization, and management of enterprise software and software-related projects.

A structured approach to portfolio management can save you tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of dollars.

It all starts when you answer that all-important question, “What would you NOT do if you knew you couldn’t succeed?”