Jed Simms

Jed Simms is the founder and co-creator of Totally Optimized Projects, an internationally recognised strategy-based, business-driven approach to delivering projects. He specialises in project governance and control and value and benefits management. He is also the founding partner of consultancy Capability Management.

The detrimental effect of poor project governance

Ineffective project governance causes more project failures than ineffective project management. It is therefore up to the project manager to ensure success rather than just supervise delivery’, writes Jed Simms.

May 12, 2016

How to prioritise your projects

Projects are pieces of capital investment and how you allocate capital directly impacts your future operations, competitiveness and profits. Jed Simms outlines the five steps to ensure your projects are prioritised correctly.

April 4, 2016

Why is poor project performance acceptable?

The philosophy of the project world appears to be “If it’s broke, don’t fix it.” Poor project performance is to be expected and accepted. Jed Simms wants this to change.

January 28, 2016

Blogs

Beyond the Iron Age for projects

If organisations are to improve their project results they need to move out of the Iron (Triangle) Age, warns Jed Simms. The Value Age is upon us.

December 17, 2015

Rethinking the Iron Triangle for your project

In project management’s Iron Triangle we are told to forego one element of ‘on time, on budget or to specification’ if we are to achieve the other two. Jed Simms backs ‘to specification’ and redraws the Iron Triangle.

December 3, 2015

Blogs

10 ways the Iron Triangle destroys project success

There is an assumption that the Iron Triangle/Triple Constraint measures of ‘on time, on budget, to specification’ are benign but use of these measures actively enables and inadvertently encourages the destruction of business value, argues Jed Simms.

November 18, 2015

7 requirements for project success

Identifying the measures of project success at the end of a project is too late to mitigate failures and major shortfalls in performance. Jed Simms explains the value equation and establishes the 7 requirements for project success.

September 9, 2015

Blogs

How to use critical success factors

John Rockart coined the phrase ‘critical success factors’ meaning factors that need to be measured and managed as pre-requisites to success. The project fraternity redefined this phrase to mean “the most important success measures”—and they’re wrong, writes Jed Simms.

February 6, 2015

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