Is project complexity an excuse for bad management?
The Project Management Institute's 'Pulse of the Profession In-Depth Report: Navigating Complexity' and several other recently published...
Cool change: Lewin’s change management model
In previous blog posts we have looked at change management methodologies, including the Kotter model of change. Here I am going to outline...
How to speak to project sponsors
The theme was the 'Projects driving and sustaining the future of the Australian economy' but the recent PMOz conference was clearly driven...
Applying Kotter’s change management model
I have previously outlined the importance of change managers having a clear idea of the theory that underpins their change methodology. In...
Did you mean to collaborate on this project?
We say it all the time. It falls off our tongues in meetings. “What we are going to do is collaborate on this project to get great...
A Tale of Two CPMs
(with apologies to Charles Dickens) It was is the best of times, it was is the worst of times: project management knowledge, understanding...
Starting the change management process
Setting up a change process, I usually analyse the organisation, the size of the change task, any methodology that may exist and then...
Resources, capacity and the portfolio manager
When it comes to resource management and capacity planning, organisations, regardless of size, scope, or activity face critical challenges...
Are project workers more cost effective than permanent staff?
For the last hundred years, the talent engagement model has relied on permanent staff. Companies hire employees who turn up day after day...
Project management and the art of delegation
All project managers have numerous pressures on their time, and need to achieve a high rate of productivity. Many also feel they are too...