You would not buy a car that failed to start 20 percent of the time. You would not invest in a mutual fund that consistently lost 20 percent of its value. Yet more than 2 out of 10 Enterprise IT projects are outright failures.
— The Standish Group, 2006
The point is to make something; to create something; to make your business better and to introduce into the world something that it didn’t have before.
The quality of the process you have in place, and the experience of the people you have on your team determine your success. When you need the highest quality to drive your projects, TLCG can ensure it’s success.
- Momentum
- Patience
- Priorities
Gaining momentum takes a large amount of energy, but maintaining your momentum requires much less energy to keep you moving. Conversely, losing momentum, on a project (like in a vehicle), wastes energy. Your team members need frequent reminders as to what the priorities are or become engaged on other initiatives. Momentum is very real, and losing it on your projects can have far reaching ripple effects which are almost never good.
In business patience can be very costly. Unlike in our personal lives, patience isn’t a virtue... it’s an expense. If a project is out of control, then it needs an effective project manager. TLCG will help you address it immediately to get it back on track, and not wait until it gets worse and begins to affect other projects and areas of the enterprise.
If everything you want had to be done yesterday, then it is no different than doing them any other day. Setting priorities doesn’t mean that something isn’t important, but rather says that it can’t all be the most important. Without prioritization, almost nothing gets completed, but everything gets a little attention. Consequently, your momentum is suffering on almost everything and you’re expending a great deal of energy with very little return.