I’ve heard it said that project planning and scheduling is an art – something to be mastered and refined. If you really want to take planning and scheduling seriously a few basic rules could save you a lot of grief…
Considering and understanding stakeholders and then acting to engage them is generally agreed as being one of the most critical parts of any managed change initiative. Unless a thorough account is taken of the stakeholders in the project, there is…
For many people who work in project management, the approach, tools and techniques of both risk management and value management are just applied common sense. Why would anyone attempt to undertake a project without first understanding the areas of uncertainty…
Most Project Managers will use a probability and impact grid (or matrix) in some form as a means to assess the relative importance of identified risks and hence decide which risks need urgent treatment or, in some rare cases, no…
There’s plenty of advice around about how Project Managers and their teams should behave, so what could we say that would add to the sum total of it? For a start, we could distil decades of lessons from project reviews…
The ‘networked’ form of organisation that brings together a complex mix of in-house, out-sourced and contracted services and resources, is common enough. Such networked organisations are seen as a way of enabling corporations to operate on the global stage, to…
The word risk will inevitably mean something potentially bad and therefore the thought that a risk management process is anything more than a process to deal with things that might harm you or your project will be a strange idea.…
In mature project management sectors, such as IT, energy and construction, quality management seems to ‘just happen’. The project manager has people to ‘do it to the project’ so building capability to ‘do it yourself’ is never a priority. In…
Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Organisations are not insane or stupid; however, if risk workshops are ineffective why does anyone persist in running them in the same way…
I can’t remember the year, but it was when Microsoft released its first version of Project®. A friend of mine, who was an up-and-coming Project Manager, called me to say that he had this terrific software that enabled him to…