Monday, 29 March 2021

Review of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) 5th Edition

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I’ve belatedly got to grips with Managing Successful Programmes (MSP Ⓡ ) 5th Edition. I’m late to the party – my book was delivered several...
Friday, 12 March 2021

Learn from Lean: use Collaborative Design for faster and cheaper projects

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 When should a project manager plan to use the project budget? Should you keep a lot of budget in reserve for the last part of the project...
Thursday, 4 March 2021

Use recipes to bake better projects

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Are your projects unpredictable? Maybe they are a bit like my mother’s cakes! Better cakes, better projects My mother wasn’t a great fan o...
Saturday, 6 February 2021

When standard Project Management life-cycles are surprising

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A few years ago, I created a project management software package called TrioProject. The package was quite good, but it had a major flaw. It...
Friday, 15 January 2021

Why Lean PMOs use CoPs not policemen

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How do you improve project management in an organisation? The "classical" solution was to create a PMO (a project management offic...
Friday, 10 April 2020

Lessons from the Bushfires: understand stakeholders to communicate better

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Lessons from the Bushfires Communication is a critical success factor in project and programme management. To communicate successfully, yo...
Thursday, 2 April 2020

Toyota is not just a car maker. Are you just a project manager?

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Toyota is the home of Lean Manufacturing. In the 50's, Toyota developed the Toyota Production System, which became Lean Manufacturing. A...