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Sponsor Maxims
Jim Johnson talks on Executive Sponsorship at ESI’s PMO Executive Summit on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 – 11: 00 am – Noon @ Charing Cross Hotel, The Strand, London WC2N 5HX
Sixty-0ne percent (61%) of successful projects were managed by organizations with a highly skilled to skilled executive sponsors. Seventy percent (70%) of failed projects are managed by organizations with moderate to poor executive sponsor skills. Executive management support is the number one factor of project success. Improving both the executive sponsor and the project manager’s bonding skills will increase project success. Measuring and benchmarking executive sponsor and project management bonding skills is the first step in improving them. In this talk, Jim Johnson will present almost two decades of research on Executive management support skills and the effects it has on project outcomes.
In this talk you will learn:
- What is the role of the executive sponsor?
- What is the bonding role of the project manager?
- What are executive sponsor skills?
- What are the project manager bonding skills?
- How to measure and benchmark executive sponsor skills?
- How to measure and benchmark PM bonding skills?
- How to improve and manage executive sponsor & PM skills?
- Why should you care about them?
Project Executive Sponsor Test Kit
The Standish Group research shows that a highly skilled executive sponsor (ES) is the number one reason that projects meet their business and project management goals.
Our Executive Sponsor Test Kit and workshops can improve the executive sponsor skill levels. Executive sponsors can improve their skills successfully. However, they first need to identify, recognize, and create a program to improve the ES that works within your organization’s culture and environment.
The Standish Group’s Project Executive Sponsor Test Kit helps you to identify trouble areas and provides advice on building a roadmap for improvement.
Project Executive Sponsor (ES) Test Kit benefits include:
Learn the 50 most important ES skills
Identify your organization’s ES strengths
Identify your organization’s ES weaknesses
Measure your organization’s ES against our standard
Benchmark your organization’s ES against 1,000 organizations
Create a formal ES improvement program
Improve your team-building and facilitation skills
Improve team self-respect and success rates
Earn education credits and achievements
For more information on the Project Executive Sponsor Test Kit, please contact Jennifer Lynch at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Read Now: CHAOS MANIFESTO 2013
We are pleased to announce the release of CHAOS Manifesto 2013: Think Big, Act Small is now in the Classic report section of the Website. Here we map the results from 2003 to 2012. The focus of the 48-page report is on small projects and we compare them against the resolution of large projects. We also compare small agile projects with waterfall projects. Throughout the report we discuss the best practices to make small projects even more successful and how to implement a small project strategy to improve on project success rate and increase project value.
The CHAOS Manifesto 2013: Think Big, Act Small has many graphics and charts. The report is in three sections, introduction, ten factors of success, and summary. The break down of the report is a four-page introduction. There are 4 four pages per success factor with the first page as an overview, the next two pages cover the best practices and how they relate to small projects. The last page of each factor of success sections is an example from one of our products such as OptiMix, Dezider, HealthCheck or Executive Sponsor appraisal. The last four pages of the report are a summary on advice on how to implement a small project philosophy.
The table of content is the sample research section of the website here.
If you are a CHAOS member go here to access the report.
The CHAOS Manifesto 2013: Think Big, Act Small is for members only, if you would like to become a member go here
New CHAOS Numbers – New Database
The Standish Group has been collecting case information on real-life IT environments and software development projects since 1985. We get many questions on how we populate the CHAOS database. First, you should understand we are analysts and advisors, not data collectors. Second, each piece of data and every project are reviewed thoroughly by an analyst before it goes in the database. Third, we have a standard and non-standard list of questions to determine the accuracy of the data given to us that goes into the database. Fourth, nothing is taken at face value and everything is questioned. Fifth, we have been rebuilding the CHAOS database for the six months to create a standard format. The new database will be used this month to present the new data and in April when release our first yearly results.
One of the big changes to the CHAOS database is adding analysis of different views. For example we looked at different elements to assigned views such as the skill level of executive sponsor, project managers and users. We then have the ability to report on the outcomes based on this analysis. We can also select high valued projects and look at the best practices of those organizations, as well as look at results by selecting different months. Other views include constraints such as goals, capability, and complexity. The above pie chart represents the percent of projects by the goals from January 2011 to December 2012 with a labor cost range of $6 million to $10 million. New CHAOS results will be presented to CHAOS Members this month.
If you are not a member you can join here:
