Even experienced project managers are not immune to common reasons for project failure. Poor time and budget performance, failure to deal with complexity, and uncontrolled changes in scope can catch any project manager off guard. This collection of materials can help improve your project’s success rate.
Here's a collection of conference presentations, white papers, book chapters, and journal articles on topics developed over 4 decades of managing projects and programs in a variety of domains, where arriving on or before the needed time, at or below the needed cost, with the needed Capabilities to accomplish a mission or fulfill a strategy is necessary for the success of the project.
The basis of success for all project success, no matter the domain, project management process (Agile or Traditional), project management tools, and technology, starts by answering the questions posed by the Five Immutable Principles, first published in Performance-Based Project Management, American Management Association, February 2014.
- What does Done look like in units of measure meaning full to the decision-makers, starting with Measures of Effectiveness (MOE), Measures of Performance (MOP), Technical Performance Measures (TPM), and Key Performance Parameters (KPP)?
- What is the Plan to reach Done, with outcomes fulfilling these measures on the needed date, for the needed cost, to deliver the needed Capabilities to accomplish a mission or fulfill a strategy?
- What Resources - staff, facilities, funding, and regulatory compliance will be needed to reach Done as needed?
- What are the Impediments to reaching Done at the needed time, for the needed cost, with the needed Capabilities?
- How will Progress to Plan be measured in units of measure meaningful to the decision-makers? The passage of time, consumption of money, production of Stories, and Story points are not measures of progress to Plan. Delivery of Capabilities to accomplish the mission are.
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, Glen B. Alleman, 2022 Project Management Symposium, University of Maryland.
- Five Immutable Principles of Program Success, Their Processes and Practices, IPMW 2017.
- 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success, Forum Safran 2013.
- Five Immutable Principles of Capital Project Success, Webinar Safran, 2017.
- Increasing the Probability of Project Success with?Five Principles and Practices, Project and Program Management Symposium, University of New South Wales, November 11, 2020.
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, Spring Seminar, Austin Chapter, 2012
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, PMI Mile High Chapter, 19 April 2019.
- Five Immutable Principles of Capital Project Success, Webinar Safran, 2017.
- Increasing the Probability of Project Success by Applying the Five Immutable Principles
- Increasing the Probability of Project Success with?Five Principles and Practices, Project and Program Management Symposium, University of New South Wales, November 11, 2020
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, Spring Seminar, Austin Chapter, 2012
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, PMI Mile High Chapter, 19 April 2019.
- 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success, Safran Forum 2013.
- 5 Immutable Principles of Capital Project Success, Safran Webinar, 2017.
- The 5 Immutable \(?)i(m)-?myü-t?-b?l\ Principles of Project Management Needed To Increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS), PMI Symposium Fort Worth Texas, 16 July 2010.
- The 5 Immutable \(?)i(m)-?myü-t?-b?l\ Principles of Project Management Needed To Increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS), Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, February 1st and 2nd, 2010.
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, Spring Seminar, Austin Chapter, 2012.
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, PMI Mile High Chapter, 19 April 2019.
- Five Immutable Principles of Digital Transformation Project Success, PMI San Diego, 11 July 2018.
- Five Immutable Principles to Increase Your Probability of Project Success, Lakeshore (Ontario) PMI, 27 October 2018.
- Improving the Probability of Project Success with Five Immutable Principles, Lakeshore (Ontario) PMI, 27 October 2018
- Five Immutable Principles of Project Success, Northern Utah Chapter, PMI 2012.
