Effects Based Projects

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Effects Based Projects

A Practical Guide that Puts Strategy-to-Task When Complexity and Uncertainty are High

By

James T. (JT) Bogden, PMP, MSIT

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Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to be exposed to many operational / project circumstances and methods of management. While serving with the United States military at an operational level command, we were forward-thinking deciding to use the Effects-Based method. In practice, we developed our strategies then broke them down into objectives and desired effects. We then initiated projects to achieve those effects.

Often the projects were of high complexity and high uncertainty. While we knew the endstate, the path to the endstate was often difficult to observe. Using methods to discern the complexity, we were able to reduce the challenge to a workable problem set.

The private sector has many challenges, among them rapidly changing business environments and complexity. Professionals tend to rush-to-results. I saw the Effects Based methods as ways that could be applied in the private sector. The Book, Effects Based Projects, discusses the processes and means of achieving effects in place of a rush to results or things. I combine the Effects Based method with Agile to arrive at solutions for effects to deal with the challenges.

The book touches topics on a high level and I try to present hip pocket tools to focus on results more than reports and computer driven artifacts that take time to develop.  The Book is currently sold on Amazon in print and eBook form for Kindle. 

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References:

Bogden, J.T. (2019). Effects Based Projects: A practical guide that Puts Strategy-to-Tasks When Complexity and Uncertainty are High. Bogden: Nashville.

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