3 ways to stop procrastinating on your project
Project managers often oversee multiple projects simultaneously, meaning that they may work with several stakeholders, teams and...
Governance and stakeholder management maturity
Ethical management and corporate governance are about balancing the competing needs of all of the organisation's stakeholders, balancing...
Separating project managers from governance decisions
I wrote in an earlier blog about automating governance, an article very much focused on tools. As a follow-up, I thought it worth...
Governance for programs and Agile projects
This follows on from Evolving stakeholder management in programs and Agile projects All organisations aim to make a profit, or to increase...
Will a virtual office work for project managers?
Any reader familiar with the TV series hit 'The Office' (UK version) would notice people crouched over computer screens doing who knows...
Portfolio Management 101: selecting the right projects
According to the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) guide to Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) an established structure...
Why a project is not an island
I used to think project management was all about realising benefits until I observed that the aim of a standard project was really about...
Profile: Sculpture by the Sea
Art project. If these two words conjure up visions of five-year-olds constructing wondrous things from coloured paper and glitter glue,...
How to contain the project data explosion
Even five years ago, the volume of data in the construction industry was tiny compared to what exists on a project today. Technology and...
Reversing the management view of project costs
The simple fact ignored by most accountants, general management and project managers is that cost is an output from the management...