Guerrilla Project Management

7 Steps to Writing Effective Statements of Work – Step 2

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:51:59 +0000

In my initial port in this series “Seven Steps to Writing Effective Statements of Work – Intro”, I provided a high level overview of the Statement of Work (SOW) development process. Step 1 covered the planning the effort. This post will describe step 2 – formatting the SOW. You can choose to have one person in [...]

7 Steps to Writing Effective Statements of Work-Step 1

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:35:38 +0000

In my previous post “Seven Steps to Writing Effective Statements of Work – Intro” , I provided a high level overview of the Statement of Work (SOW) development process. In this post, I cover step 1 – planning the effort. This step includes the following activities: Establish a Preliminary Scope Statement Start the SOW writing process by identifying [...]

7 Steps to Writing Effective Statements of Work – Intro

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:12:53 +0000

There are many ways to approach writing a Statement of Work (SOW) for projects that involve vendors. This series explore the seven steps that will lead you through the process of writing any SOW. These seven are not necessarily sequential, but it should be possible to move backward/forward to the previous/next step depending on the amount [...]

No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects – The Neal Whitten Interview

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:57:56 +0000

I had the distinct pleasure to speak to Mr. Neal Whitten, one of my great Project Management teachers. Few years ago, I attended Neal’s popular and outstanding seminar “Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects” and read his two popular books: Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects and Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice [...]

It takes a village to fail a project

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:35 +0000

In my previous 2 posts, I wrote that failure is in the eye of the beholder and there is no failure, only feedback. In this post, I propose that we need to take responsibility for our part when our project fails, but only for our own contributions to the outcome. We should never shoulder the responsibilities of [...]

There is really no such thing as failure, only feedback

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:21:25 +0000

In my last post, I wrote that failure is in the eye of the beholder. When a project ends, talking about whether it was a success or a failure is sometimes like talking about religion or politics. For the most part people will have their own opinions and there is nothing you can do to change [...]

Failure is in the eye of the beholder

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:40:09 +0000

Success for one person can still be seen as failure in the eyes of another. Show me a successful project and I will show you at least one stakeholder who thinks the project failed to meet their expectation. Over the course of a project, stakeholders change their mind about what is important to them, re-evaluate their [...]

The Eight Constants of Change – An Interview with Stacy Aaron

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:48:25 +0000

In this edition of the Guerrilla Project Management podcast, I interview Stacy Aaron co-author of two books on organizational change: The Change Management Pocket Guide published in 2005 and The Eight Constants of Change published in 2008. These books are popular with many Fortune 500 companies such as, American Express, Bayer Corporation, FedEx, UPS, Johnson & [...]

Global System Rollouts – Focus on Latin America

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:39:24 +0000

In this edition of the Guerrilla Project Management podcast, I interview Nicolas Sulla on large global rollouts. I attended Nicolas’s presentation on this topic and invited him to share with us his experience from a global rollout of Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) in Latin America. Nicolas is a global Project Manager with more than 15 years of [...]

On Wearing Two Hats: Project Manager and Product owner

samad@guerrillaprojectmanagement.com (Samad Aidane) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:37:45 +0000

A healthy conflict between the Project Manager and the Product Owner creates a build-in system of checks and balances that protect projects from getting hijacked by single-minded agendas. In our experience, when these two roles are performed by a single person, that individual is likely to be much stronger in one area than the other. It [...]