Can your project handle the ugly truth?
At one point in your career you will need to face an ugly truth. Maybe the project you're working on is a dog's breakfast, or perhaps you...
Dealing with high maintenance project team members
I was recently watching the movie When Harry Met Sally, and there’s that funny scene where Harry tells Sally that she’s high maintenance....
How not to kill a project
(This is a companion piece to Avoiding sunk cost syndrome on your project) Making a sensible decision to ‘kill’ an uneconomic project or...
Avoiding sunk cost syndrome on your project
One of the hardest things to do is to stop wasting money and resources on a losing proposition. The fact you have spent several months and...
Should project goals be achievable or aspirational?
If you see something that can be done, are you more likely to do it, or would you consider it not ambitious or challenging enough for your...
The role of process fairness in decisions
When you have to deliver bad news to a person, the processes you use are at least as important as the decision you have made. The car...
6 mistakes lean practitioners make
Companies of all ages, sizes and industries are embracing lean principles in an effort to become more innovative, more profitable and more...
How project workers market your organisation
The importance of good relations with your contingent workforce is about more than the opportunity to retain talent within your business....
Should you blog your project?
We have all been told that communication with all stakeholders, particularly the core project team, is one of the central responsibilities...
How to use critical success factors
John Rockart coined the phrase 'critical success factors' in his HBR article of 1979. He defined them as the factors that need to be...