As a consultant who works with organizations around the globe, I get to see many forms of a PMO and I get to see what works and what doesn’t. A well thought out and value adding PMO can add measurable strategic and operational value to any organisation regardless of its […]
Tools and techniques
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This post isn’t about my normal topics relating to project management but as a consultant I spend a lot of my time traveling nationally and internationally. I think anyone who travels regularly will relate to it. I was born traveling and didn’t really settle in one place until my early […]
There is a lot of use of the word agile in the organisational world. You can see it in job ads, see it in the descriptions of the way software is developed, and see it being used to describe entire workplaces and organisations. These are the four main ways I […]
I was asked at a recent Project Management Conference what I thought were quick solutions for common project management issues. This is what I said in response to the rapid dire questions posed: Poor planning and estimating – Start with a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and then involve those people […]
Have you ever been in a scenario like this? A project manager tells you that the project is halfway through, but has only spent 30% of the budget and therefore everything is going well. What’s missing from the statement is, of course, the amount of work that you expected to […]
** Please email me for a copy of the card deck that you can print out to start brainstorming your own methodology As a project management consultant I have often been asked to provide clients with an off-the-shelf, or readymade, project management methodology. In one sense this is good thing […]
Carrying out project audits are a great way to discover what is going well and not so well with your projects. The focus for the audit should be on improvement not punishment so make sure that the process is focused upon repeating the good things you discover and stopping the […]
So you’ve been asked to provide an estimate for project cost or time. What do you do? You could simply think of a random number, multiply it by the number of freckles on the back of your hand, divide it by the number of bites it took to eat your […]
Does using all the right processes, tools and techniques guarantee project success? Does having all the right credentials and training mean you cannot fail? The short answer is no, it doesn’t. Managing projects well is all about increasing the chances of project success and reducing the chances of project failure. […]