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Where Do Organizations Struggle? Part 1
April 5, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Computer Based Information Systems
Where Do Organizations Struggle? Part 1 (#1 in the series Where Do Organizations Struggle)
By Mark Kenny
OK, so organizations struggle with project management software. How? What situations do organizations typically find themselves in, so that we can then address topics to deal with those struggles? I am going to attempt to categorize typical scenarios that I have found.
The first scenario are those organizations that have no project management tools right now. When I have given talks, in order to interject some fun, I have labeled this category “Cucumbers”. Why did I pick cucumbers? Because I was looking for something that signified not having much going for it, and I happened to see “Larry the Cucumber”, one of my kid’s stuffed characters. A cucumber has no arms, no legs, no hair…there’s just not much there, with all due respect to Larry.
Similarly, organizations with no project management tools don’t have much to work with. Now for some organizations that’s ok, because they don’t have many people or many projects, or there just isn’t any level of complexity. But for most organizations in this scenario issues pop up in different forms. Perhaps “Susan” is walking down the hall and gets asked “How are we doing with Report XYZ for Company ABC?” Susan may say something to get herself off the hook initially, but then rifles through her pads of paper trying to find the notes because she cannot remember. Or perhaps she walks through the office asking people what is going on. Missing deadlines, deliverables slipping through the cracks, no one really knows what’s going on or what people are doing are all symptoms.
Is this you? Do you experience anything like this in your own organization?
Next, we’ll look at the second scenario. Later, we’ll begin to look at ideas to address issues that these scenarios represent.
Mark Kenny is an avid project management software specialist with particular interest and experience in implementing project management software tools into organizations. He is the founder and president of Team Interactions, Inc., a San Diego-based corporation focused on helping organizations achieve real value from project management software through both specialized services and the EnterPlicity Project Management System. Mark holds a certificate in project management through the University of Washington, and has spent the last 14+ years in the project management discipline. He is the author of the Project Management Software Blog. Mark can be reached directly at mkenny@teaminteractions.com. Information about Team Interactions can be found by visiting http://www.teaminteractions.com.
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