09/04/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: detailed requirements document, detailed scope, good requirements, good requirements characteristics, project scope
I realize that sometimes requirements and scope are used interchangeably. In many discussions, the picture of the detailed requirements become the overall scope of the project that you then protect with oversight and change orders. But there is also some work that has to happen up front to create that scope – that overall vision […]
04/16/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project customer satisfaction, project information flow, project management best practices, project scope
As project managers, we have many responsibilities and much accountability. In other words, there are a lot of things expected of us and those expectations come from different levels of the organization, from our project team members, and from the customer. They say you can please all of the people some of the time, and […]
12/12/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project health, project management best practices, project risk management, project scope
Projects come and go and if we are experienced, diligent, and a bit lucky, we will experience many more project success stories than failures. But there will come a time when you fail on a project…it happens to all of us. Hopefully, never enough that we quit (or are asked or told to quit). But […]