10 ways to assess process performance

There are crucial disconnects between our process purpose—what our customers want and what our business needs—and the reports that purport to represent process performance. Robert Lamb provides 10 essential questions you should ask of your project processes.

The kindness and cruelty of project management

Jed Simms long ago discovered that the opposite to project ‘success’ is rarely failure but ‘compromise’ in project delivery performance and in compromised future performance. Here he insists we have to be cruel to achieve the project outcomes we want.

When to use a consultant on your project

Matthew Franceschini on using an independent professional to add skills and energy to your project.

“They approach each engagement with confidence, enthusiasm and vigour. These are all qualities that can re-energise a project.”

Review: The Well-Balanced Leader—Ron Roberts

Roberts’ new book, The Well-Balanced Leader, is written from the perspective of nine attributes that real leaders need to be successful in the workplace.

Risk management maturity improves performance

Organisations that have a mature risk management outlook are more likely to run business strategy projects successfully, according to a report by Ernst & Young.

Project management’s fatal flaw

When NASA projects failed, they failed in the most public and tragic way possible. But one man turned NASA’s fatal flaw into a career diagnosing dysfunctional project teams and turning them into low risk, high performing ones.

Review: Hiring for Attitude—Mark Murphy

Hiring for Attitude is a top-rated book by Mark Murphy, chairman and CEO of Leadership IQ. Prabesh Aryal provides his review:

“I believe this book would be a very good reference for project managers to assemble an attitude oriented project team.”

Developing sustainable project teams

The current environment is challenging. Enough said. But no business can afford to simply stop running projects and wait for the storm to pass. On the contrary, businesses can prosper if they select the right projects and have sufficient visibility on the capability alignment of their project delivery teams.