From the field: project retrospectives, hard-won judgments, and the thinking behind the decisions.
Strategic Cases
Context This case came from an annual digital government modernization initiative delivered through two procurement lots. It was not a single system project, and it was not best understood as two unrelated portfolios. A more accurate international framing is one programme delivered through two coordinated workstreams. Together, the two workstreams covered more than a dozen […]
Strategic Cases
Portfolio Context This case was an annual information systems portfolio rather than a single project or a program. It contained multiple initiatives owned by different departments, with different business goals, procurement stages, technical scopes, and readiness levels. The portfolio included infrastructure upgrades, cloud platform work, data sharing, cybersecurity remediation, industry-specific systems, park management, public service […]
Strategic Cases
Context This case came from a multi-site audio-video and network systems project for specialized business spaces. The scope covered video capture, audio reinforcement, conference connectivity, business hosts, storage, switching, displays, software clients, and deployment across many locations. From an overall project management perspective, this was not a simple equipment delivery. Each site had different room […]
Strategic Cases
Context This was not a single system project and not a program built around one master product. It was an information systems portfolio for a large public institution, covering data-room relocation, audio-video and network systems, switching and office equipment, a centralized control center, archive digitization, video conferencing, endpoint equipment, and data-center virtualization. Each subproject had […]
Strategic Cases
Context This work was not a single project, and it was not a program organized around one dominant product. It was a portfolio of information systems commissioned and delivered around the same annual cycle. The portfolio contained about eight workstreams across public service intake, environmental sensing, air-quality forecasting, video resource enablement, urban operations support, public-service […]
Strategic Cases
Context This case was not a single project, and it was not a tightly integrated program either. It was an annual IT portfolio: a group of information-technology initiatives placed under one governance responsibility but not arranged as one strict delivery chain. The portfolio included infrastructure and operating-environment work, business platforms, data capabilities, networked sharing, secure […]