I fully appreciate that language is always evolving, and as we make up new words and definitions they become added to the dictionary.

Background

When systems people talk about “waterfall” approaches, they mean something like the picture above.

Next Time

For those who have worked with the Results Chain™ technique found in Macroscope, the most powerful justification for an investment is how it will contribute toward important business outcomes. Here’s how I’d want to use it to approach this question next time. This is a first draft of a model I could use to stimulate deeper understanding and facilitate decisions.

There are some further lines of reasoning, but this gives the main picture.

The Need

I was recently asked to help with a business case for a course. It was a “soft skills” course that would contribute to team building, collaboration, creativity and productivity. The client knew instinctively that the course was important to the development and performance of her people, but she had to convince her boss that they should spend the money now instead of next year.

A Tool is Just a Tool

Look what We Bought

“We just bought the Mark X Ultimate Extreme Project Management Tool so we don’t need Macroscope for project management,” said the freshly-appointed PMO manager.