Again Hal Macomber is my inspiration here, with his Ten New Rules of Project Management. I'm assembling a collection of Practice Guides for our project managers and came across this simple set of criteria for managing a project - especially an IT project:
- Insist everyone speak in "capabilities" as the standard unit of measure - "what day will we be able to process invoices from our top ten parts suppliers?"
- Have something to touch one month after the project starts and every two weeks after that. This "something" must be meaningful to the customer of the project
- Insist on a list of "testable" requirements and their representative deliverables - no Power Point slides, no paper progress reports – real things that demonstrate progress is not just the consumption of resources
