Andrea Jones reviews execution KPIs across three areas: red flags in structure and available time due to lack of project-management resources and over-commitment, yellow for alignment, and green for competence. She recommends the Execute Agility model to fix structural problems and improve quarterly delivery.
Here are the results of the survey I just took. There's a couple of red areas, a yellow, and a green. Right now, we already know some areas are not going great— structure and available time. Alignment is okay, and I believe competence is good. At the bottom, it tells me what I can do to improve. Let's look specifically at alignment. That one is yellow. It's not terrible, but we could probably be better. The good news is it's very easy to improve this one as well. Available time is red for everyone almost always. It's so easy to pile on more projects than you have time to do. Competence is almost always pretty good. It's not that people don't know how to do what they need to do. It's mostly they don't have the time to do it. Structure is really the hard one for companies who don't have a project management office or really a whole team who's dedicated to organizing projects, getting them kicked off, measuring them, keeping them transparent, and making sure they hit the expectations every quarter. That is what the Execute Agility model does.
