Evaluating Opportunities...
The Institute of Sport
Organisation and people development in the business of sport
Who would have thought that listening to an episode of a favourite podcast would see parallels with Project Management?!
The episode in question on ‘Five of my Life’ by the redoubtable Nigel Marsh featured former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Towards the end they were riffing about (of all things) Cabinet submissions and Rudd demanding to know whether the problem submitted actually existed, why the solution advanced was the correct one and what the outcomes versus the outputs were!
Strike me lucky! Every one is a crucial building block found in the initiation stage of project management. Each one a question that needs to be asked, and answered!
Unfortunately, questions such as what problem does the potential project actually solve, alternative solutions and cost are too often overlooked as organisations fluster and bluster in the heady early days of getting a project done.
Here at iSport we have a one page solution that addresses each of these and something you can put to use right now… the Project Concept Canvas (PCC). The PCC is a visual and highly effective way to specifically define project opportunities as well as a low-cost method of comparing those opportunities.
We mentor you to create effective PCC’s as part of the Project Management for Sport and Events course. In short, it identifies which opportunities:
And what organisation wouldn't want that?
Incidentally the podcast can be found here: Five of my Life