5.3. Enlist a Champion
If you are hoping to transform the way you do project planning, you will need more than desire, and more than a budget allocation. You will need a champion. Without a champion, any effort to improve your planning process is probably doomed to failure. The champion is the person who can articulate a vision, inspire the troops, and rally them to battle.
“Most studies have shown that new ideas without champions have little chance of success.” (Humphrey, 1989)[2]
[2] Humphrey, Watts S., Managing the Software Process, © 1989 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.
Unfortunately, a good champion is hard to come by. Ideally, a champion should be someone in-house. A planning champion ...
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