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UML Profile for Benefits Realisation Management – 2
This is a follow on from UML Profile for Benefits Realisation Management – 1. In that post I described the basic UML profile I have created for modelling project benefits in line with Bradley and Ward & Daniels Having started to apply the profile successfully, I wanted to extend it to model measures, These were [...]
UML Profile for Benefits Realisation Management – 1
I wrote yesterday about using a general purpose UML modelling tool to create project Benefit Maps. In that post I described using Enterprise Architect’s ability to create custom UML profiles to create the beginnings of a custom modelling language for project benefits management. In this article I walk through the basics of that UML profile. [...]
Modelling Benefits in UML
Benefits Realisation Management is one of those classic programme / project disciplines that “everyone” agrees is a great idea, which in my experience is more overlooked than observed. The main sources in the literature I’m aware of are books by Bradley and Ward & Daniels. I’ve also had the privilege of learning directly from Gerald [...]
PRINCE2 Practitioner
I’ve just heard that I have passed my PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification, thanks to the excellent help of Pearce Mayfield. I’ve been familiar with the PRINCE2 method for a number of years, and have certainly applied the principles to local methods, but have resisted getting into it too formally because of the bureaucratic nightmare I have seen many [...]
PRINCE2 Practitioner
I’ve just heard that I have passed my PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification, thanks to the excellent help of Pearce Mayfield. I’ve been “broadly familiar” with the PRINCE2 method for a number of years, but have resisted getting into it too deeply because of the bureaucratic nightmare I have seen many organisations make from it. One of [...]
BPUG Congress 2008
I spent half a day earlier this week at the Best Practice User Group Congress. BPUG is concerned with the application and use of OGC products such as Prince2, MSP and MoR. As you might expect therefore there was little mention of alternative methods such as Agile. I didn’t have time to attend the conference sessions, so this is somewhat less [...]
Proactive Risk Management
New on the bookshelf… Proactive Risk Management, Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development by Preston G. Smith and Guy M. Merritt
oopm
OpenOffice are starting on a project management tool [via Clarke Ching]
Lean Project Management – it’s about what you notice
Over at Reforming Project Management Hal Macomber is seeking to transfer the learning from Lean Production into the project management world. In Lean Production there exists the concept of the “visual workplace”, commonly expressed through the 5S model. Hal points out that projects may not always involve material products and resources but always involve people [...]
Mind-mapping for projects and Wikis
Almost 4 years after I wrote this post, a very similar idea emerges spontaneously over at ActivityOwner, with the difference that he has actually produced the first iteration of a tool to do the export...
Using a commercial mind-mapping tool for project start-up (amongst other things)
More project management goodies
Shaking off the “Shoulds”, Pardon Sisyphus by Johanna Rothman The Politics of Projects by Geoff Choo Project Integrity Hal Macomber [Source Hal Macomber]
Excellent Project Management Site
Link to excellent project management site
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