In this week’s article Charles Bokor discusses the emergence of Super Sized Projects and Black Hole Projects - projects that have grown so large in size, scope and consumption of an organization’s resources they are nearly impossible to bring in on time and on budget, let alone meet the original success criteria of the project. Charles goes on to describe the reasons why traditional project management methodologies fail for these challenging projects and how they can be lead to a successful conclusion.

Originally published in the Autumn, 2011 edition of the fmi*igf Journal published by the Financial Management Institute of Canada.

Have you ever wondered why so many bugs get reported by the business? Does your experience of business process and system development include a litany of so-called failed requirements? Is your business struggling to overcome the mystery that is Knowledge Management? If so, then you might want to read on. This article introduces a mapping notation, or language, called Collaboration Mapping. In our experience it is one of the most effective ways of opening a stubborn door often called, Knowledge Management.