Why PMOs fail
In many organisations, there is a wide gap between what the PMO is doing and what the business expects. This misalignment has serious...
Making meritocracy work for your project team
Where does meritocracy stand in an age where equality has started to mean mediocrity? What are some of the drawbacks of treating everyone...
Is PRINCE2 still relevant?
PRojects IN Controlled Environments, better known as PRINCE, has been helping project practitioners since 1989. Is it still relevant more...
7 steps to analysing risk via Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo simulation is the most common way to analyse risk using numbers. But many people view quantitative risk analysis as too...
How performance management can help your project
Some organisations perform consistently well, others don’t. This statement is true of all aspects of an organisation’s performance...
Creating a culture of engagement and accountability
Executives and their leadership teams do three big things. They build a strategic vision, they mobilise an organisation to execute that...
No such thing as a pristine project
Anyone can write a lessons learnt report for a project, but to really make your achievements and failures count, lessons need to be...
When opportunity knocks
“Knock, knock!" "Who's there?" "Opportunity." "Opportunity who?" "Does it matter? Just open up!” Sometimes you have to be completely...
Mind the change gap
The year of 2015 will be another year of growth and development and challenge for many. Organisations are often in the situation where...
Problems, conflicts and decisions
While frequently treated as separate topics, conflict management, problem solving and decision making are interrelated and all are focused...