LSA Global Insights Newsletter: November 2007

November 1, 2007

Powerful Project Management Post Mortems


Research suggests that up to 75% of projects fail to meet original expectations or success criteria. In our minds, this number is unacceptable.

Each year, we conduct project post mortems with experienced, qualified, and motivated project teams that did not succeed. Our experience shows that spending a little bit of time to take stock throughout the project and at the end of a project can pay big dividends.


Post mortems also help ensure that you do not build irreversible walls between stakeholders, developers, departments, and team members.
If you are not making major improvements in cost, quality, stakeholder satisfaction, and time between projects, then our Post Mortem Methodology is for you.

Learn more about how to use Post Mortems to drive success...



About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned

How to Manage Stakeholder Risk on Projects

Would it surprise you to learn that being on time, on budget, and fulfilling all requirements does not necessarily mean project success? Whose requirements are we trying to meet anyway? And who decides if the original due date can be changed when the scope grows?

The key to many complex projects is optimizing stakeholder involvement in a way that makes sense.

When it comes to stakeholders, you better be asking yourself the following 3 questions: 

  • Who cares?
  • What do they care about?
  • What am I going to do about it?

To most good project leaders, these questions are pretty elementary. Here's the twist. As we developed a workshop on stakeholder management built on those three questions, one of our project risk management experts put all the pieces together when he said, "That's just risk management for people."

We think he's right.
Read how to effectively manage stakeholder risk...



About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned