Controlling your
Critical Succes Factors
If you don’t identify and manage your project’s Critical Success Factors - they will destroy your project!
By definition, they are critical to your project’s success!
They are those decisions, events and situations that must exist for your project to be successful.
They are beyond of your project team’s control
CSFs can be - project funding, resourcing, senior management support, business capacity, economic situations, interest rates.
Some CSFs can be managed others can only be monitored.
But ALL CSFs need to be known, assigned and tracked.
Most projects have about a dozen CSFs.
First you have to find them — so I’ve provided you with a workshop pack to Understand and identify your CSFs (and a podcast to explain how to use the slides),
This pack takes you through
- a three-part explanation of what CSFs are and are not and their context.
- the CSF-identification exercise
- and the subsequent accountability assignment.
Then you need to manage them — so I’ve provided you with An Essential Guide to “How to manage CSFs” plus an audio detailed explanation of CSFs and their impacts.
The Essential Guide takes you step-by-step through the end-to-end CSF Management Process.
From the accompanying audio you’ll learn
- What is a CSF?
- Who owns CSFs?
- How many CSFs can be managed?
- How to run a CSF-identification exercise
- Some strange things you may find
- How to process the draft CSFs
- How to plan management actions and assign accountabilities
- The need to report progress
- What happens when CSFs are not managed!
Managing CSFs is the accountability of the governance team.
It gets them involved.
It focuses their attention and efforts.
It gets them working for you, the project team
It dramatically increases YOUR likelihood of success!
But you need to help them by giving them the required knowledge and tools.
’ve helped you by giving you the knowledge, tools and support you require.
KNOWLEDGE on what CSFs are and how they are different to risks
TOOLS to identify, ‘process’ and manage CSFs
SUPPORT to run identification workshops and deal with the unexpected.
The Complete CSF Management package, consisting of
How to manage CSFs guide
How to manage CSFs audio
Understanding and identifying CSFs explanation podcast
Comes for just the cost of an hour of a contractor’s time
JUST US$99!
BUT this is a special introductory offer price for just two months; then it will double!
PLUS ….IF YOU ORDER NOW, YOU’LL RECEIVE AN
ADDED BONUS
The BUSINESS/PROJECT PERFORMANCE SURVEY,
You can use this invaluable survey on all of your projects - internally and with key stakeholders - to ensure you are all ‘on the same page’ and have a common understanding and level of expectations.
This Survey can be customized with project-specific questions.
Use it once the project has got underway.
Then, as governance team members, stakeholders and project team members change over the duration of a long project, re-use the Survey to ensure continued commonality of purpose and understanding.
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factors surrounding your project that must go right for
your project to succeed
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Help a friend or colleague...
All projects must identify and deal with their Critical Success Factors. But few do it effectively because they don’t have the tools and knowledge.
If you know of a colleague or friend who is running a project, send them a no-obligation referral so that they can learn how to effectively identify and manage their CSFs.
You can be critical to their success!
As a bonus, I’ve included a FOCUS BRIEFING that I think you’ll finding interesting and useful.
Our interesting and entertaining Briefings deal with important issues quickly and, often, controversially. I hope you’ll enjoy “B158 Worthwhile Workshops”.
Thank you for visiting www.yourcsfs.com.
Your Complete CSF Management package will be sent to your email box.
And remember, if your Sponsor needs further help, go to www.beingaprojectsponsor.com (coming soon) to see the tools and guides you can equip them with.
Alternatively, if your Sponsor “sees the light” and wants to become an excellent project sponsor, send them to www.beingaprojectsponsor.com to sign up for the progressive Sponsor Education and Support package.
These short newsletters are raising the level of understanding of project governance, which is still not well understood. I hope you enjoy them and find them useful.
Working for your success
Jed Simms
Further tools and support for you and your Sponsor are available at
www.beingaprojectsponsor.com - tools and guides for Project Sponsorship Excellence
www.project-sponsor.com - a complete range of guides, tools and programs to increase project and benefits delivery success.
