Articles written by Roger Lever

Project status reporting is an essential and regular task. Project reports must be clear, concise and complete and contain the right level of detail for target audience.

Jan 9, 2009 - Roger Lever

IT Service Management is a framework of good practices to align IT services with current and future needs of business. To improve the quality and reduce cost of services.

Jan 9, 2009 - Roger Lever

Stakeholder management is essential to a successful project. Project managers must do stakeholder analysis and mapping to plan for effective stakeholder engagement.

Jan 8, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project tracking is essential to monitor project progress and identify any project slippage or time delay. Treat effective time tracking as an early warning system.

Jan 8, 2009 - Roger Lever

Managers must focus on the vital few things such as benefits, scope, requirements, business change management and testing that they control and really matter to success.

Jan 6, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project management must establish an effective change process for managing change to project scope and consequently delivered benefits as well as solution change control.

Jan 6, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project planning extends to the end of the project to ensure an uneventful transition of the software solution to those responsible for its ongoing operational support.

Jan 5, 2009 - Roger Lever

Software project management provides tools and techniques to deliver projects successfully. Managing project delivery is to ensure that the implementation is done well.

Jan 4, 2009 - Roger Lever

Effective project status reporting is to communicate situation and progress to all key stakeholders. It is a simple way to give out key project messages and information.

Jan 2, 2009 - Roger Lever

Software testing is a time consuming but essential task. As software becomes more complex so does the task of testing it. Automated testing is designed to make it easier.

Jan 2, 2009 - Roger Lever

Project management of software requirements must be managed to ensure right inputs result in the right outputs. Managers as well as the project manager are responsible.

Jan 1, 2009 - Roger Lever

The threat of redundancy or being made redundant is a life changing time. Time to reflect, self-assess and decide on whether it is time to start a new life opportunity.

Jan 1, 2009 - Roger Lever

Before a project formally begins the stakeholders must understand what business problems are being solved, what benefits will be achieved and therefore what the scope is.

Dec 31, 2008 - Roger Lever

Benefits management starts with planning and ends with benefits realisation. Benefits are the reason for doing a project and achieving them is the ultimate project goal.

Dec 31, 2008 - Roger Lever

Porter's five forces model for competitive analysis is very useful but it is missing key elements such as industry group, industry sector analysis or competitive forces.

Dec 24, 2008 - Roger Lever

Experienced project managers will have developed and honed their project management approach. Match those skills and strengths to the type of project for best results.

Dec 24, 2008 - Roger Lever

Project risk management planning requires thinking through the risks and applying risk mitigation strategies. Managing project risk is essential for a successful project.

Dec 24, 2008 - Roger Lever

Project planning requires good project estimates for a realistic project schedule; that realism will be enhanced by allocating enough time to the schedule.

Dec 23, 2008 - Roger Lever

Steingart challenges globalisation and the flat world view, offering an alternative interpretation of global economic trends and elements like free trade and outsourcing.

Dec 23, 2008 - Roger Lever

Identify project risks early by looking at scope, people interaction and project approach. Assess the risk probability and potential impact to create a mitigation plan.

Dec 19, 2008 - Roger Lever

Use the Balanced Scorecard framework as a strategic management tool to do comprehensive strategic planning and then follow through with effective strategic implementation

Dec 18, 2008 - Roger Lever

Project failure is high whether it is measured by actual cost versus budget, the final delivery date versus original schedule or business requirements met by the solution

Dec 18, 2008 - Roger Lever

An effective business vision and set of business strategies requires good strategic analysis and strategic thinking and is based on business strengths and opportunity.

Dec 17, 2008 - Roger Lever

A concise summary that is an accessible explanation of economics that is aimed at everyone. Its topics range from work to globalisation, the environment to high finance.

Dec 17, 2008 - Roger Lever

Project planning requires good project estimating to produce an achievable project schedule and a greater chance of on-time delivery. Managers should guide the process.

Dec 16, 2008 - Roger Lever

Project managers should use the discipline of project management to achieve project objectives. Managers should understand the essential ideas to use it successfully.

Dec 15, 2008 - Roger Lever

Michael Porter's five forces model-New Entrants, Substitutes, Buyer or Supplier Power, Existing Competitors-is a simple and effective technique for competitive analysis.

Dec 15, 2008 - Roger Lever

Managers need to plan and organise SWOT analysis so that the people and processes deliver the desired results. The idea is simple; the execution is harder to do well.

Dec 12, 2008 - Roger Lever

Mohamed El-Erian delves into the dynamics of the modern world of investing and the changing global economy. Sharing analysis and insights of the secular transformation.

Dec 11, 2008 - Roger Lever

Alan Greenspan, former FED chairman, noted: "...an essential read for those who wish to understand the workings, politics, and distresses of the global financial system".

Dec 11, 2008 - Roger Lever

SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool to help a business see its own strengths and weaknesses and do external market analysis by looking at opportunities and threats

Dec 10, 2008 - Roger Lever

The author shows how to create freedom of time and place and to use both however you want; a blueprint to live more and work less, an opportunity to change everything.

Dec 10, 2008 - Roger Lever

A tale about entrepreneurs and their motivation. Make work pay in cash but also in experience and satisfaction. What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life?

Dec 9, 2008 - Roger Lever

Vagabonding is about taking time to discover and experience the world up close and personal, emphasising discovery and spiritual growth from those journeys and encounters

Dec 9, 2008 - Roger Lever

Originally published in 1854 this book is the 150th anniversary edition. Walden draws on Thoreau's journal and explores living away from society and reflecting on life.

Dec 9, 2008 - Roger Lever

Do comprehensive market analysis to select the right sales strategy: new, differentiated or price. An effective sales strategy should then exploit business strengths.

Dec 8, 2008 - Roger Lever

First identify business problems with poor leadership, weak strategy selection, superficial planning, business management issues and lack of organisation to solve them.

Dec 5, 2008 - Roger Lever

Starting a small business is a big decision and there should be a clear business opportunity, with preferably a personal passion for the business and family support.

Dec 4, 2008 - Roger Lever

Improve or transform any small business by clearly defining the vision and strategies, and organising it into systems to execute the strategy and achieve results.

Dec 1, 2008 - Roger Lever