The Crystal blog
Ideas, experience and perspectives on managing projects, developing people and improving delivery.
May 16, 2016
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…
Read article ↗April 12, 2016
Total Quality Management (TQM) is an accepted part of quality management and customer satisfaction in many organizations. While it has a broad range of interpretation and application, it has some consistent principles…
Read article ↗March 15, 2016
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has just released the exposure draft of The PMBOK® Guide 6th edition for review and comment. I will try to summarize the major changes. I won’t go into the…
Read article ↗March 14, 2016
** 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…
Read article ↗February 16, 2016
Have you ever played the game of dominos? I did many years ago and I was never very good at it. If you remember the game, it involves trying to place your…
Read article ↗December 2, 2015
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…
Read article ↗July 28, 2015
One of the greatest challenges we face as project managers is a focus on outputs over outcomes. Generally, projects are initiated to deal with a particular outcome (or benefit). A problem or…
Read article ↗July 27, 2015
More and more research clearly indicates that organizations with a PMO deliver more successful projects than organizations without a PMO, yet that same research also tells us that a lot of organizations…
Read article ↗July 27, 2015
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…
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