The Project Execution Maturity Model Not More Planning, More Cooperation For too long, project managers have believed that the right planning leads to the right results. Yet time after time, independent research shows that the current approach to project management fails to produce the outcomes managers expect – and clients want. Researchers report: A staggering 39% […]
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Is your project team set to win? Are they spending too much time in conflict resolution? Is taking too long to make decisions? Few would argue against the value of goal directed work. But in most projects, the only person on the team with the single objective of completing the project is the project manager. The
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Are you still working on improving your project management capabilities? Wondering why that skills training and new software doesn’t make the difference you thought it would? What can you do that makes a difference between project success and failure? There is too much groupthink in the project management improvement industry. The last big breakthrough that won
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Do you feel like you and your project team have a good grasp of what’s coming towards you? Or are you the beneficiary of “surprises” and last minute problems that put your project in peril? We find that the biggest problem that project teams face is that they are simply unable to clearly see where they
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The glue that holds this whole reliable deliver process all together, as well as the last part of the process, is the reconciliation processes. At the top level, the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process integrates the demand and capacity planning for the business. The schedule approval process is the key to getting buy-in, ensuring timely
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What do managers do when their project teams are unsuccessful? You probably do what most managers do and send them for project management skills training. There is some evidence that shows more skills equates to better performance. But this relationship between training and project performance is really just a correlation. Yes, training equips your team with
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Being on time begins with setting the expectation with the customer, promising delivery when it can actually be completed. Order delivery promising must reflect available capacity. Just as you manage cash, you must carefully manage the capacity of your business. There should be a process to commit the capacity, just as there is a process to
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The entire team must participate to make delivery reliable. It isn’t just the operations or production departments. Perfect execution is a commitment for the whole organization. Involving people begins with measuring the right things; setting the right expectations for performance. Management decides what the measurements are; what get measured gets done. There seems to be so
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The Production Manager Owns Execution Often, the responsibility for execution is split up among functions or it’s not clear who is responsible for the entire process. There can be no question of who is responsible for execution. Having a single person accountable for the ensure order fulfillment process provides leadership for the entire execution team. The
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Install a Master Scheduler A single, master plan drives the Maximum Flow System and the planning process is the responsibility of the master scheduler; he/she owns the process. While that may seem like an obvious statement, to many, it’s not. Those organizations do not employ a master scheduler or even have a formal planning and scheduling
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