The Standish Group

We ask more the 50 IT senior executives “What are your comments on acquisitions, mergers, and divestures?”

We ask more the 50 IT senior executives “What will be the most overused term or acronym for 2021?”

The Standish Group predicts there will be a return to civility in both work and personal relationships. 

The Standish Group predicts greater equity within the ranks of the mid- to lower-level organizational workforce.

The Standish Group predicts the advancement and implementation of local on-demand “micro factories.”

The Standish Group predicts the project economy will start fading in 2022.

The Standish Group predicts that more HIROs (Health Intelligent Research Organizations) will execute “healthcare moon shots.”

The Standish suggests that it is the responsibility of every member of the project team to be accountable for self-improvement.

The Standish Group suggests you manage arrogance.

The Standish Group suggests you consider Dr. Dinis Miranda’s research.

The Standish Group suggests you focus on creating and maintaining awareness. 

The Standish Group suggests you balance your case.

The Standish Group suggests before your team can make effective decisions…

The Standish suggests you set… 

While thinking is clearly necessary, and important, don’t spend too much time doing it!

We ask more the 50 IT senior executives “What will be the breakthrough technology for 2021?”

The Standish Group suggests that for any project to succeed the project team must is talk to the users in their language and customs.

The Standish Group suggests a celebratory reward.

The Standish Group suggests you consider Dr. Dinis Miranda’s research.

The Standish Group suggests prior to accepting the role of executive sponsor, the person must have a full understanding of the project.

The Standish Group suggests it is crucial that the sponsor has a vested business interest and a commitment to a successful outcome.

The Standish Group suggests executive sponsors need to know…

The Standish Group suggests that common group is where the users agree to features, functions, and requirements.

The Standish Group suggests creating and maintaining a community facilitates a healthy PM ecosystem.

The Standish Group suggests that successful projects need smart, trained people.

The Standish Group suggests that pruning during development is like contractors cleaning up their work environment before they go home.

The Standish Group suggests executive sponsorship begins with basic education on the project management process with the executive sponsor’s roles and responsibilities. 

The Standish Group suggests the executive sponsor needs to understand the process regarding how the project or program will be carried out. 

The Standish Group suggests the executive sponsor needs to understand what resources are needed for the project and how the team will obtain and use these resources. 

The Standish Group suggests having a flexible formal process can improve the success rate.

The Standish Group suggests that exclusion is where you cannot achieve common ground and trade-offs will not work.

The Standish Group suggests consider each feature-function benefit. 

The Standish Group suggests that the project team help the users learn how they can transfer the users understanding of the business.

The Standish Group suggests you profile the kind of person who makes a good evangelist.  

Think of this as a daily Scrum stand-up, but for the new year. 

The Standish Group suggests honor starts with management values.

The Standish Group is asking for your feedback on how you measure success.

The Standish Group suggests that a good project management methodology builds in interaction among team members as well as the user community.

The Standish Group suggests setting a target for both timing and participation.

The Standish Group suggests that Issue response is both timely and truthful will help create the bond between the project manager and the executive sponsor.

The Standish Group suggests project success requires an iterative development style.

We ask more the 50 IT senior executives “What will be the hottest—and coldest—jobs in 2021?”

The Standish Group suggests that every project have a business trigger.

The Standish Group suggests that every project have an investment trigger.

The Standish Group suggests every project have a technical trigger.

The Standish Group suggests you keep a list of evangelists.

The Standish Group suggests monitoring is a key process of maintaining chemistry.

We ask more the 50 IT senior executives “What will be the fastest and slowest growth markets in 2021?”

The Standish Group suggests that the average project will have 2.1 restarts, so there is a good chance that the current project has been tried before.

The Standish Group suggests that the executive sponsor have the team develop a method to present the progress of the project in an easy-to-understand form.

The Standish Group suggests that putting together a successful project plan requires negotiation.

The Standish Group suggests that the project team help the users transfer the understanding of the business processes.

The Standish Group suggests doing mockups. 

The Standish Group suggests doing models. 

The Standish Group suggests it is important to demonstrate results along the way.

The Standish Group strongly suggests doing steppingstones.

The Standish Group suggests instead of doing estimates for project costs, create a pipeline of projects,

The Standish Group suggests that planning includes identifying and obtaining the right positions for the project, ensuring availability of sufficient resources, and providing training, if necessary. 

The Standish Group suggests that the project team help the users understanding how the project will be executed.

The Standish Group suggests that projects are a team sport. In a team environment, everyone should know his or her place and position.

The Standish Group suggests project leaders must understand why and how to conduct primary research.

The Standish Group suggests that before development is the cheapest place in cutting out duplication and low value features and functions.

The Standish Group suggests that pruning after implementation is like maintaining your car or home.

The Standish Group suggests that a quality relationship begins with creating a cooperative environment with mutually agreeable ground rules for effective teamwork.

The Standish Group suggests that for any project to succeed the project team must build a rapport with the users. 

The Standish Group suggests you never fail to show respect for users.

The Standish Group suggests learning how to execute and get value from retrospectives.

The Standish Group suggests that users and user groups need to understand their roles and responsibilities.

The Standish Group suggests a simple vision should be communicated in the context and language of the business, not in IT terms. 

The Standish Group suggests simple vision should encompass project benefits for the short, mid, and long term of the project's life cycle.

The Standish Group suggests you develop and maintain a clear and simple vision statement. 

The Standish Group suggests a simple vision should be concise and to the point.

The Standish Group suggests small teams are Hot Groups. 

The Standish Group suggests you have multiple channels to communicate.

The Standish Group suggests you have multiple ways to collaborate.

The Standish Group suggests in order to maintain a quality relationship with the users you need to create a platform for communications.

The Standish suggests speed will save projects.

The Standish Group suggests you consider three basic collaboration processes found by Dr. Dinis Miranda’s research.

The Standish Group suggests that projects should use steppingstones.

The Standish Group suggests that strategy is how to execute the project plan. 

The Standish Group suggests that tactics is executing the plan and strategy. 

The Standish Group suggests that the executive plan should include a description of the project’s scope with a list of activities.

The Standish Group suggests that the full project plan should have a preamble,

The Standish Group suggests that a project plan must be well thought out and well articulated to all parties involved... 

The Standish Group suggests that the executive plan should have an overview of the solution. 

The Standish Group suggests action is required

The Standish Group suggests using trends.

The Standish Group suggest you tune in from the inside out.

The Standish Group suggest you tune in from the outside in.

The Standish Group suggest you tune in.

The Standish Group suggests that for any project to succeed, it is crucial to first correctly identify the proper user. 

The Standish Group suggests that for any project to succeed it needs a user or users that has the knowledge and understanding of the current business process. 

The Standish Group suggests that for any project to succeed it needs a user or users that wants to help the project and see it to a rapid successful completion and implementation.

The Standish Group suggests that for any project to succeed is the capability of the right users to participant in the efforts.

The Standish Group suggests that fast decision-making requires a…

The Standish Group suggests projects should have small but significant deliverables. 

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