It does not matter if your strategically important project is in private or public sector - at a high level, there is a common set of strategic & tactical variables that all IT projects need to address:
- Planning process - ensuring that the original plan is complete, and that all components (assumptions, resourcing, scope, etc.) are understood, recorded and managed
- Project execution - ensuring that expected progress is made, understanding key issues, risks are identified and explored sooner rather than later, enabling appropriate actions to be taken by the management team
- Project issues - ensuring that the project understands potential and current issues, and deals with them in a prompt manner
- Project scope - ensuring that the project delivers items that it has committed to, and understands the impact of increasing the amount of work (scope) it must complete
At Business Innovation these form the foundation of what we excel at, regardless if it is for private sector or the Federal government(s), Department of Defense, a state's Convention Center and/or Labor and Training Department. These variables are tightly coupled and become all the more important to be consistently and proactively done on larger scale strategic projects. Poor execution of these and other variables will equate to schedules being continually missed and inevitably will affect the organization's operation.