Moving at a snail’s pace?
Have you been sucked into a project management black hole?
Most summers you’ll find me somewhere in the shade with a chardonnay by my side and something interesting to read. This year, I’ve gravitated towards a lot of those silly-season best and worst lists. Anyone that knows me won’t be surprised that I took particular...
Four Steps To Ensure Smooth Vendor Relationships
What do we all want when we start a project? Success. Unfortunately, wanting success and securing success are two entirely different things. But that doesn’t mean it has to be hard. It just means that the correct steps have to be taken. And one big step is...
The Hidden Risks to Project Delivery
Projects go bad in multiple ways. And even when put through a project review, causes of failure can remain hidden. Scope creep is a good example. When it happens mid-project it’s usually obvious - changes to a project scope should be well documented and tracked...
Finding The Right Trusted Expert For Your Project
Covid 19 has thrust trusted experts right back into the news. Six months ago names like Ashley Bloomfield, Sir David Skegg and Professor Michael Baker were largely anonymous. Today they’re public figures, with our futures in their hands. Globally, we’ve seen countries...
The Lean Project Charter
I’d always been a fan of producing a project charter, otherwise known as a project management plan or PID, as I always found it to be a useful way to help structure my thinking about the project delivery approach and to get buy in from stakeholders on that approach. ...
Is The Problem Worth Solving?
How many times have you seen businesses dive head-first into a project without first validating the true impact of the problem on the business? There are few things more frustrating as trying to solve a problem that nobody can articulate. And of course, the typical...
Vitamins for Project Fatigue
We’ve all experienced fatigue before, but what do people mean when they talk about project fatigue? Within a project it often describes the circumstance where people lose sight of the reason for the project and their focus shifts solely to completion of tasks, which...
Stop Making The Same Mistakes!
Twenty-five years ago, a mate of mine made a colossal mistake. As a civil engineer in his first job out of university he designed a bridge that didn’t join up. Now for all of us who were his mates, this was a great laugh. For Mark however, this wasn’t so funny. And it...