Project management is alive and well, however it is true that people can get obsessed with process and forget what the process is for. Processes (e.g. PRINCE) don't manage project, people do and our goal is to get people to think about what they are trying to achieve and why and then how tools, in this case data management planning tools, can help. That's why Laurence's point is well made and important.
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Subject: Re: DCC guide for review
Hi all! Totally agree with Laurence's point.
Consider that what should be done and what is actually done are two different things and data are managed in between: that was what I said to a potential customer insisting with the argument "we have excellent guidelines" whilst cases of failures of their procurement processes were on the front pages of major newspapers some weeks ago (and I repeated the argument Yesterday on the LIS-Profession list).
It doesn't mean that planning is useless but it is one of the most controversial and weak aspect that made several researchers declaring project management dead in 2008.
I would be glad to see the definitive version of your Guide overcoming the critical points I considered at p.6 of my paper "Cataloguing the unfindable: mapping cybercrime in information management practices". See self-archived PDF preliminary version available at: http://ssrn.com/author=817174 or at http://www.brunellalongo.co.uk - Publications. This paper, listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list in January 2011 for Cyberspace Law eJournal, ERN: Other Microeconomics: Asymmetric & Private Information, Microeconomics: Asymmetric & Private Information eJournal and White Collar Crime eJournal, had been submitted to "Policy & Internet", the Journal edited at Oxford Internet Institute, in November 2010 but rejected in January. It will be reviewed and updated with the amazing evidences of impact it has had in the meantime both in USA and in the UK so I hope to be able to include your new Guide too.
Kind Regards
Brunella Longo
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