PMBOK

A couple of days ago, at a Sure Step 2010 training at Sundsgården, Helsingborg, Sweden, while students were preparing to take the exam, one of the students asks me where she can download Sure Step 2010. I give her the link, but she tells me: “No, that’s Sure Step 2012, I’d like to download 2010” .

Almost exactly two years ago, incited by a comment from a reader, I wrote an article in defense of Sure Step: Read My Lips: Why? . The point was: is Sure Step a new methodology, or is it just a wheel reinvented?

Project plan. A fancy term we all like to use. But believe it or not, most of us don’t even know what a project plan really is. I don’t know why, how and when it came to be that in IT we started using the term project plan , but whatever the origin, the term we use is somewhat incorrect, and when attached to what we often attach it to, it’s downright wrong.

Take that project you are currently running, and imagine, just for a second, that it came with only 3% budget overrun. Most of people in software industry would call it wild success. In motion picture industry, however, trampling measly 2% or 3% over initial budget would be considered a failure.

Many project management authorities assert that from project management stance all projects are equal. I dare saying that some projects are more equal than others. In my last post , I argued why I believe software (and ERP) projects are different.

“Software projects are no different from other projects”. This statement is being repeated over and over at project management courses and seminars, even endorsed in books. It’s true that software (and ERP implementation, as a subset of software) projects have many traits in common with projects in other disciplines.

(A short, almost pointless rant about PMBOK vs. Sure Step nonsense) Once, while preparing an important RFP response, a partner told me they don’t use Sure Step because they use PMI methodology . This made my toenails curl up—when people tell me they are using PMI methodology , they in fact tell me they are using no methodology at all.

Happy New Year everybody! Are you ready for it? When I moved this blog to its new domain NavigateIntoSuccess.com I gave you a commitment I intend to observe: there will be a new post here every Monday and every Thursday. Today is Thursday, so let’s rock’n’roll.

One of many improvements the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step methodology has brought along is the revised purpose of the Functional Requirements Document (FRD) . This document has long served as cornerstone of every Analysis process of every implementation project: it was the main…

Recently, a reader, commenting on my last post about Sure Step , pointed me to an article by Karl E. Wiegers “Read My Lips: No New Models!” I initially responded to the comment, but I figure the comments aren’t read as often as posts, so I decided to blog it. It’s doubly funny that the reader is using Dr.