I wrote yesterday about Project Metadata. There should be more of it. I had a conversation with a friend last night about the need for a tool that supports the "quoting" process for projects. I agree. But there are *so many* other examples of tools that projects need. It's endless, really. From the perspective of MARKETING projects, though, there really are a finite set of things that have to be called out. Many companies have different approaches to this and I would argue they do a completely incomplete job of this and leave customers wondering, waiting, confused.
Let's move past this and get to the age of MATURE project management practices. I would argue that we can't do this without leadership in marketing (it can't be grass-roots / bottom up. Or can it?).
I propose the following schema to be created and supported so we can have an analyzable cube / database of projects for our industries, people, technologies, etc. Having clear insight into these aspects of projects is *the thing* we need in my opinion. LinkedIn just isn't doing it.
- Technology - SharePoint, XML, ASP.NET MVC, Azure, etc.
- Language - C#, T-SQL, jQuery, etc.
- Business Need - Custom
- Tag - Custom
- Framework - Six Sigma, ITIL, COSO, etc.
- Industry – Automotive, IT, Energy, etc.
- Technique/Method/Pattern - MVC, MVVM, etc.
- Platform - Windows, Unix, Cloud, etc.
- Corporate Offices of Team - Seattle, Boise, India
- Person - Who worked on it
- Role/Function - Project Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, Functional Analyst, Developer, Tester, Writer, Designer, etc.
- APQC Business Process - see this page, Develop and Manage Products and Services, Manage Customer Server, Manage IT, etc.
- KPI - Sales, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Retention
- Client Company / Brand - Nordstrom, Sears, Ford, Shell Oil, etc.
- Consulting Organization(s) Involved - Accenture, Deloitte, etc.
The projects should also list:
- A Description of the project
- List of outcomes / benefits
- Rough Size of the project in dollars or people
- URL Links for information produced
- Case Study
The applications for such a database are many-fold: marketing, recruiting, business intelligence, process improvement, knowledge sharing, community.
Let's get this started today.
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