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I see too many organizations spending too much time in project planning. Actually, I take that back. They spend too much time thinking they are planning. If you want to be agile, you need to deliver software. Planning helps get you there but it can also get in the way if you over do it. [...]

Many fail at the simple task of Benefits Delivery Many Projects, big and small, complex and simple fail to deliver benefits. Yet it is actually a pretty simple thing to do if the proper steps are followed. What are the Top 5 things to do? Start early: The work on extracting the honey [Benefits Realisation] [...]

With cost and efficiency dominating the corporate agenda in today’s constrained operating environment, the ability to compare and contrast planned versus actual time and costs provides professional services firms with greater visibility and tighter control of performance in billable markets where time is money. The ability to plan effectively is crucial for professional services firms [...]

There are six main ways that a person can do to become a good project manager. The first way is to make up three different dimensions for a project. The first dimension is time. This is the one thing that a good project manager will have to take very seriously. Therefore, the project will need [...]

IT-led business change programmes and projects continue to fail, yet many of the common pitfalls could easily be avoided by undertaking a ‘health check’ regularly and acting early on the intelligence it provides. Peter Osborne, managing director at LOC Consulting examines the early warning signs a health check can reveal and how organisations should respond [...]

Project management has existed since buildings were first erected or ships first built but it wasn’t known by that name in mankind’s early history. It was with the development of Gantt charts in the second decade of the 20th century that the role of managing a set of inter-related tasks to deliver an end-product to [...]

This is the third of a 3-part article – you can read the first 2 parts via the links below: PART 1: Living Projects PART 2: Living Projects – Complex Adaptive and Living Systems   It is not possible to “control” lively self-organizing processes.  It is possible to enhance Kauffman’s conditions and intentionally create a [...]

Good project management is fundamental to the success of any project. Without it, a project can fall behind quickly and end up significantly overbudget. Businesses have often been destroyed by just one poorly managed project. The person in charge of managing a project needs to be very qualified and smart. He or she must also [...]