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Thursday, January 15, 2004
Successful Projects and Successful Blogging -- The neat thing about this blogging stuff is the ever-widening network of folks to learn (and steal) from. A new (to me) blog that's triggered a recent post and a number of "to-posts" is Jim Berkowitz's CRM Mastery E-Journal, not only for his stuff, but for new (to me) names to whom he links. Case in point, on characteristics of successful projects, he excerpts...
"(1) Successful projects have champions; (2) successful projects have metrics, (a predefined method for calculating ROI); and (3) successful projects begin with a lot of skepticism."
from Bill Trippe's Ideas in Technology and Publishing: Why Content Management Projects Succeed or Fail. Worth a read. Champions come from having projects with potentially serious bottom-line enhancement, which are reflected in the ROI. And if there isn't skepticism involved, then you've got to wonder if the project is worth doing; very few worthwhile endeavors are easy lay-ups.
I wonder who Bill will lead me to.
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