The Voices We Value

by Carl Pritchard

Making business decisions is never easy. It becomes progressively more complicated as those around us offer their "two cents' worth" about how we should act or what practices we should adopt. And the sheer number of those around us sometimes means that we receive input from a host of different parties, all with different perspectives. The challenge for organizations is to determine which approaches they should apply and which voices they should listen to in making the critical decisions about implementing and adapting project management practices within their organizations. A recent Cutter survey highlights the value of trusting those we have chosen to trust historically and the limited amount of sway that most outside forces should have (and do have) on our business decisions. The analysis of the survey results presented in this Advisor focuses on the drive to evolve from a business perspective and the voices that we see as having the greatest inherent value.