Project Management Methodologies

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Restarting a Project
By Raymond Posch

This is a story about having to stop a project gone wrong, examine the team dynamics and project approach that was not working, and then restart the project with a major replan of team organization, work effort, and timeline. (This story also has some useful lessons learned that are applicable to process improvement projects generally with a successful methodology.)

The Context

When I was the PMO manager of a dot.com startup, I was asked to lead a project to "achieve CMM level 3 in the shortest time possible". This was for a subsidiary of Perot Systems that was developing advanced ecommerce systems. It was during those exciting times of the dot.com boom.

The business reason for wanting to get to CMM Level 3 was that our best  competitors were advertising CMM Level 3 certification. Our management team thought that having the credential would allow us to prove ourselves more easily and compete in a highly competitive marketplace.

At the time we were still learning what worked and what didn't ...

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