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  • building focused, motivated, self organizing collaborative teams that improve with effective feedback is important. I have several reference points that have been helpful to me.
  • what's in it for the company?
  • what's in it for the team?
  • what's in it for me?
  • expectations, consequences 
  • CBTP focus
  • powerful communication, consensus, collaboration
  • democratic autocracy on decisions, organizing
  • continuous focus on execution, change management, stakeholder consensus, value delivery
  • Project Homeruns >> how to deliver solutions: Discovery, Assessment, Design


How to Improve Your Score

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on Investments in Business, IT

How to raise your PBA (Project Batting Average ) to .900 for on time, on budget, on value delivery?

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  1. <<< data warehouse design team reorganized 3 times with new personnel
  2. <<< data warehouse team had good business but not strong data architecture skills
  3. <<< after 3 reorgs, the data model came out 6 weeks late
  4. <<< the data warehouse team shared little until done
  5. <<< my data services team was fully dependent on the data model
  6. <<< the warehouse data model delivered was unusable
  7. <<< the data services team had to engineer a working, useful data model for services
  8. <<< we communicated weekly to the CIO our dependencies, the expected impacts of delays, bad design
  9. <<< we weren't allowed to add resources or budget to our team
  10. <<< our team overcame severe family problems to stay focused on delivery
  11. <<< CIO made faces and said we needed to make the original deadline without added resources
  12. <<< we delivered the data services to go to production 6 weeks late as well
  13. <<< we failed to make up the lost time from the warehouse team
  14. <<< key - we failed expectations and there were consequences

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  1. for the team
  2. <<< we created both useful data services that were accurate and a usable data model
  3. <<< the business did use the new data lake and it became the core for all internal and client solutions as the source of truth


Process to move forward after a missed key project milestone


  1. Own the problems first then your team's responsibilities and support clearly.

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  1. Communicate clearly, directly, immediately with all stakeholder groups.

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  1. Agree on the core team to lead analysis and solution definition going forward.

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  1. Identify problems, missed expectations, consequences.

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  1. Research together root causes for failures, missed opportunities.

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  1. Collaborate with stakeholders on options, best strategy forward to get the consensus and commitment for success in the next stage.


Candidate Solutions



Step-by-step guide for Example

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