If it’s worth hearing, it’s worth sharing. Here are some Lucid Thoughts from our team.
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…
Today, rather than using project, initiatives, working parties or campaign as synonyms for the things we do to undertake change we have introduced a new set of words that includes the old word project, but adds two new ones: programme…
Many people say that project management as we know it today – if not first thought of in the construction industry – was certainly developed and massively enhanced there. When you think about it, the construction industry comes in many…
We have wondered why project risk management often does not work in practice. The theory is understood and the process of project risk management is well documented in numerous books, guides and procedures. Our observations are that the first four…
A while back, we learned from a global project-based IT company that they had decided to actively reduce the number of project managers they employed through natural wastage and, if necessary, redundancy. This is not a reflection of any downturn…
We have often reflected on the roles of risk management and value management in achieving optimal solutions to both business and project challenges. We concluded that optimal value is most likely to be achieved by a combined approach that systematically…
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…
Continuous change and learning is a mantra we hear more frequently in a global, competitive world. Organisations have become more adept at building new capabilities and re-designing business processes. Training, whether linked to the deployment of the new capabilities or…