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When businesses (or non-profits or government agencies) set new goals, they undertake projects to bring those goals into reality. Projects are how strategy gets implemented and new capabilities come into being. 

Therefore project management is becoming increasingly important to organizations everywhere.

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On Project Transparency
by Raymond Posch

Today, for all projects that represent a significant investment of resources and organizational energy, and certainly for all projects that are important to the business strategically, the project manager must give executive management visibility into the project.

The old standard monthly status report does not really provide any true transparency into the project. It provides indicators and data but often not real meaning and insight into whether the project is healthy in every sense and on track to achieve its business goals. It’s like opening a small window and letting bits of information show through to the world outside the project. Transparency, on the other hand, is like having glass walls so that the true state of the project can be seen by the world.

Transparency into a critical, strategic project means giving meaningful yet concise information about the project, and especially answers to the questions that executives would ask if they came to the project manager’s door to find out how the project is “really doing”. Transparency means taking the initiative to give senior management the answers to those questions before they come to your door.

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