Managing

5 common project estimation mistakes

While ‘non-estimators’ expect estimation to be an exact science, there are a large number of easily made mistakes that can have a major...

I once read an article titled 'Ten Top Tips for Effective Risk Management'. Tip number 4 was “Kill the Risk Manager”! But the author was...

Introduction by Pat Weaver To paraphrase the old IT joke about 10 types of people in the world (those that understand binary and those...

Today’s IT projects usually represent a major deliverable of a wider enterprise program and their success or failure can have a massive...

As a project manager, you certainly appreciate the importance of assessing risk carefully, assigning it to the party that is most likely...

Have you ever been asked “How risky is your project?” Most project managers find it hard to answer this question. Your Risk Register lists...

(This is a companion piece to Avoiding sunk cost syndrome on your project) Making a sensible decision to ‘kill’ an uneconomic project or...

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...

Companies of all ages, sizes and industries are embracing lean principles in an effort to become more innovative, more profitable and more...

Monte Carlo simulation is the most common way to analyse risk using numbers. But many people view quantitative risk analysis as too...