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Project Management Best Practice 8 – Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

Projects optimally progress toward the achievement of their ultimate goals when team members individually and collectively contribute to the completion of project tasks in a non-redundant fashion. While project schedules should assign individuals or groups of individuals to each task, the schedule itself is not likely to include minute tasks or to clearly assign the very specific nuanced contribution of each individual within a group assigned to a task. Another tool, the roles and responsibilities matrix, provides the needed performance assignment clarity for those minute undocumented tasks and group activities; helping eliminate the risk of redundantly performed work that would unnecessarily slow progress and raise costs.


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Decision-Making Best Practice 12 – Diverse, Redundant Data Sources

StrategyDriven Decision Making ArticleData serves as the foundation of every decision. Combinations of data bits are logically joined to form the packets of information upon which decisions are made and actions taken. Without quality data, the probability of making the right decision is greatly diminished. Increasing data accuracy is subsequently paramount to improving decision quality.


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Executive Vision – Being a Leader – A Job that’s Never Done: Energy

Executive Vision is a five part series created by CNBC and sponsored by Credit Suisse. Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.


Distinguished Guests

  • General Wesley Clark, Co-Chairman Growth Energy
  • James Hackett, Chairman, President & CEO, Anadarko Petroleum
  • Suedeen G. Kelly, Commissioner, The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • T. Boone Pickens, Chairman, BP Capital, and Architect, “The Pickens Plan”
  • Jigar Shah, Founder, SunEdison and CEO, The Carbon War Room
  • Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Founder, The Center for Global Energy Studies and Saudi Oil Minister and Former Head, OPEC

Project Management Best Practice 7 – Use of Administrative Support

All projects demand some level of administrative work to support project plan updates; progress report development, printing, and dissemination; issue and risk register maintenance; team member contact list maintenance and update communications; personnel and facilities coordination and scheduling; team and stakeholder communications development and dissemination; etcetera. And the amount of administrative work increases with the scope and complexity of the project. If singularly assigned to project specialists, this work detracts from these individuals’ productivity; unnecessarily inflating time and monetary costs.


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Recommended Resource – Decision Points

Decision Points
by former President George W. Bush

About the Reference

Decision Points by former U.S. President George W. Bush explores his decision-making and thought process when dealing with the major issues challenging his administration. Regardless of whether the reader fundamentally agrees with President Bush’s decisions, this book illustrates the many organizational, political, and social pressures that shape the decision-making processes as well as the use of multidiscipline teams, devil’s advocates, and redundant information sources. President Bush also highlights the many lessons learned through each of the complex decisions presented; what made aspects of each decision and its implementation successful and what could have been done better.

Benefits of Using this Reference

Complex decisions are never easy to make and no decision will ever please everyone. Decision Points provides an in-depth look at several of the decisions that are both familiar and shape our world today. StrategyDriven Contributors like Decision Points because President Bush’s candid reflection on his decision-making process and how he would improve on his decisions if he had the opportunity to remake them provides readers with incredibly insightful lessons learned that they can apply to their decision-making process. Additionally, many of the decision-making best practice recommendations found on the StrategyDriven website compliment those found in Decision Points; making this book a StrategyDriven recommended read.