Understanding business models is a key to successful project management. Why? If you can understand the business model that you are supporting, you will be better able to create a stronger and more relevant project charter and plan. You will be in a much better position to measure your project’s success throughout execution based upon … Read more
Any project is being executed in order to ‘get a job done’. A critical, up front, strategic action for the project manager is to gain clarity on the ‘job to be done’ by the project. This is often also called the ‘product of the project’ – but maybe it goes deeper. This article looks at … Read more
Project management and organizational strategy should be a tight fit – but often are not. It would only seem natural that projects would be designed and managed based upon the reason they exist in the first place. Often it seems like ‘out of the box thinking’ to map project purpose back to organizational strategy and … Read more
Many more recent strategies and projects have at their roots the idea of ‘network effects’. At the most basic level, network effects occur when the value of a product, service, or platform increases simply because the number of users increases. This post focuses on initial background about network effects: history of network effects, network effects … Read more
The idea of doing ‘strategic project management’ may sound appealing. It has a buzz to it! But what exactly is strategic project management? This post explores the essentials strategic project management. What Strategic Project Management Could Be When we start a project, we begin by asking what it is all about, what is to be … Read more
Hi – John Reiling here! Welcome to The Strategic PM. Project Managers are typically associated with implementing…but I’ve always thought that was limiting. There is nothing like seeing the big picture to help you deliver more value, to open new opportunities for the organization and you, and to help others. MY STORY My first job … Read more