Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
One of the things I learned during my career was to name projects.
Give them an identity!
If you already give a name to your projects that name is: FABULOUS, ATTRACTIVE, SPECTACULAR, EXCITING (for yourself, for the team, for the customer)? Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 28, 2020 4:26 PM
Replying to LORI WILSON
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Hi Luis: All my projects are named - and what a good thing since I often juggle multiple projects for multiple hospitals. If they weren't named, it could get very confusing. Typically we name them by the software or other type of implementation we are working on.
Dear Lori
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
In your opinion, what criteria could be used to name projects? Saving Changes...
Dear Kiron
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
Interesting what you wrote: "It's the difference between the janitor who is cleaning up people's messes and the one who is ensuring a safe working environment for their customers"
In your opinion, is it normal for companies to give a name to the projects in which they are involved?
Projects usually are named by all the clients I have worked with as their EPM tools often force that requirement. However the names are often meaningless, focused on technobabble or on the "how" rather than the "what" and "why".
A good name can help to inspire and to align whereas a poor one will not.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Jan 29, 2020 3:33 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Kiron
Thank you for your opinion
Interesting what you wrote: "A good name can help to inspire and to align whereas a poor one will not."
In addition to the comment: "However the names are often meaningless, focused on technobabble or on the" how "rather than the" what "and" why "
We are naming each project, we made codes for each client if the project is related X Client, its code will end with 800 if the project is related Y client it is code end with 700.
Our Finance Applications are designed to take just seven words for each project, so we are giving the first three words from the project.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Jan 29, 2020 3:35 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Ahmad
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
In your opinion, what criteria could be used to name projects?
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 28, 2020 4:48 PM
Replying to Deven Patel
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I think every project has a scope attached to it. Naming a project that resembles the scope boundary for ex:- naming a data mart project for the Sales Business Unit as "Sales Mart", data mart for Finance Business Unit as "Finance Mart" and collective the Enterprise Data warehouse as the "Company Warehouse" defines the scope and gives a meaning to the project. It's always a good idea to name the projects in order to define the scope and boundary for the projects and also to generate confidence in the minds of the stakeholders for the project.
Dear Deven
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
Interesting what you wrote: "It's always a good idea to name the projects in order to define the scope and boundary for the projects and also to generate confidence in the minds of the stakeholders for the project"
In this exercise of creating the name, can you mention and at the same time limit the scope of the project?
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1 reply by Deven Patel
Jan 29, 2020 3:01 PM
Deven Patel
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One of the very first projects I worked on after graduating was creating a student report generator for a university. The project sponsor called it "My Students" - I guess being a Graduate Chair and her attachment to students she called that. I would have called it Student Report Generator since it generated information only related to Students and not their course information or their pre-requisites or their parent relationship with the university or the alumni funding or anything else. The name should explain the purpose of the project in my opinion. Of course sometimes you have to settle for arbitrary names.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 28, 2020 7:11 PM
Replying to Vincent Guerard
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Luis,
Nice question, last project I worked on, still work on, has no name except "Secret project" for "Secret client".
That made it Attractive, Exciting and it might become Fabulous and Spectacular.
Dear Vincent
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
If you notice "Secret project" for "Secret client" is a name :-)
Do people (team, stakeholders, customers) feel impacted by the name?
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Jan 29, 2020 8:46 AM
Vincent Guerard
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Luis,
The initial request by the client was that both the project and the client not be told to anyone, so it became the "Secret Project", form the "Secret Client". It did give it some attractiveness.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 28, 2020 7:34 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Projects usually are named by all the clients I have worked with as their EPM tools often force that requirement. However the names are often meaningless, focused on technobabble or on the "how" rather than the "what" and "why".
A good name can help to inspire and to align whereas a poor one will not.
Dear Kiron
Thank you for your opinion
Interesting what you wrote: "A good name can help to inspire and to align whereas a poor one will not."
In addition to the comment: "However the names are often meaningless, focused on technobabble or on the" how "rather than the" what "and" why " Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 29, 2020 2:14 AM
Replying to Mushtaq Abdulrahimzai
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We are naming each project, we made codes for each client if the project is related X Client, its code will end with 800 if the project is related Y client it is code end with 700.
Our Finance Applications are designed to take just seven words for each project, so we are giving the first three words from the project.
Dear Ahmad
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
In your opinion, what criteria could be used to name projects?
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1 reply by Mushtaq Abdulrahimzai
Jan 29, 2020 3:54 AM
Mushtaq Abdulrahimzai
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Dear Luis,
You are welcome, as per my experience, we have multiple projects with same clients, we are giving the name to projects as per below criteria:
• should be short
• should be meaning full
• the name should be unique
• should be easy to not face any problem in communication
• should be easy if need to search in DMS
• should not take much space, for folder printing
Dear Ahmad
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
In your opinion, what criteria could be used to name projects?
Dear Luis,
You are welcome, as per my experience, we have multiple projects with same clients, we are giving the name to projects as per below criteria:
• should be short
• should be meaning full
• the name should be unique
• should be easy to not face any problem in communication
• should be easy if need to search in DMS
• should not take much space, for folder printing
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2 replies by Luis Branco and Vincent Guerard
Jan 29, 2020 9:01 AM
Vincent Guerard
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Ahmad,
The set of rules; short, meaningful, unique, clear of confusion.
What do you qualify has easy for searching in DMS?
Jan 29, 2020 10:40 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Ahmad
Thank you for your opinion and for creating a short list of requirements for naming projects
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Biren ParekhDirector| CRISILMumbai, Maharastra, India
Yes, it is mandatory to give a name to the project in our organization. The name should be self explanatory as some of program managers & platform heads are switching between different projects on every other call, status reports or review meetings. The name normally includes Bank name & type of product/project. For e.g, it can be XYZBank CR2020 or ABCBank VAM Implementation or AAABank Singapore Liquidity Impli. Project code is also attached to the project for MIS purpose.
I cannot imagine a situation of a project without name, unique identifier or code name. Can you, Luis?
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Jan 29, 2020 10:45 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Brien
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
Are the names you designate related to the scope of the projects?
In your opinion these names are: FABULOUS, ATTRACTIVE, SPECTACULAR, EXCITING (for yourself, for the team, for the customer)?
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