Connecting Projects to Business Intents and Benefits

Organisations DON’T do projects. They react to pressures and opportunities.
By preference we’d all use all our assets to generate benefits now. But then reality invades. Effort has to be diverted into enabling tomorrow or protecting today’s capabilities. Threat and opportunity emerges from bottom and top of the hierarchy. Authority and strategy (mostly) cascade, Realisation (mostly) is enabled against a context of contradictions needing decisions. A problem redolent with politics.
If you’ve the personality match then perhaps the first challenge is to crystallise a view of possible futures, then debate, clarify, coalesce, agree and commit to a destination. After that is the relatively simple process of backcasting the minimum necessary path until we reach today’s reality. Alternatively if your world view is “We can’t…” and “It won’t…” then the start is different but the end is the same.

Speaker bio
Simon Harris professional experience spans PL/1 programmer, Unix-SysAdmin, DBA and currently people/change/benefits. From ‘Checkout compiler and lint(1) to ‘So how do you run projects and what is a portfolio anyway?

Simon lives in Edinburgh with his wife Lea.

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