How projects relate to strategy, and how portfolios relate to either, is often misunderstood. Reconsidering these terms and how they provide useful perspectives of portfolio management.
Managing Stakeholders: The Myth & Reality
The negotiation of uniform, consistently understood and agreed upon requirements should be a straightforward and manageable process. Exploring more effective strategies for managing stakeholder requirements.
Managing In The Face Of Imposed Models
Process development often starts with the adoption of models and standards. These are not always most helpful in defining processes that actually produce results.
The ‘3 Bears’ Theory Of Project Management
Project managers are under incredible pressure to do more, more effectively and with less resources. Faced with these challenges, we have to ask how much we invest in the process of managing our projects. How much is too much, how much is not enough, and what does ‘just right’ actually look like?
The Challenge Of Project Learning
A definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, each time expecting a different result. Yet often this is what happens to our projects. We recognize that we should change what we do, yet we don’t take the time to learn.
Lining Up The Usual Suspects: Exercises In Project Staffing
Project staffing increasingly appears to be an exercise in ‘lining up the usual suspects’. Discussing a more rational approach to staffing and resourcing projects.