The Crystal blog
Ideas, experience and perspectives on managing projects, developing people and improving delivery.
January 31, 2024
In the world of project management, rules (e.g. processes, tools, and techniques) are often seen as the bedrock of different approaches and methodologies. It seems that each one has their own particular…
Read article ↗January 31, 2024
Everybody strives to be better than they currently are personally and professionally, and some people strive to be the absolute best they can be. If you are a project manager looking to…
Read article ↗January 23, 2024
This article was inspired after meeting a couple of people in situations where they did not have the necessary delegated authority to keep a project moving along, but were being blamed for…
Read article ↗January 16, 2024
I’ve completed many project management maturity assessments using the P3M3, OPM3, and 4Q models for clients, and they are a great tool for improving project management success but too many organisations get…
Read article ↗December 12, 2023
Have you ever been in a meeting and you’ve thought “What am I doing here, I could be doing real work?”. Of course you have, we all have. So, what do we…
Read article ↗December 6, 2023
Did you know that, in my opinion, no project ever approved has been approved on the basis of the thing, output or deliverable it will build? Let that sink in for a…
Read article ↗December 6, 2023
When I am teaching project management and we get to the subject of lessons learned I often make a joke that if people did lessons learned properly that consultants like me would…
Read article ↗November 30, 2023
Some basics of project management (in a quick sentence or two): 1. Project managers with experience and credentials are generally better than project managers with experience only, and definitely better than project…
Read article ↗November 30, 2023
Survivorship bias is a logical error that focuses on the survivors of a particular process, while overlooking those that didn’t make it. In the context of project management, this can lead to…
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