In my last blog I discussed how to restore your calm and equilibrium when deciding What do you tell your manager when the wheels come off? In this article I’ll discuss how to prepare for that difficult conversation using a simple four-step plan: Situation analysis Options development Options selection Communication 1. Situation analysis It is[…]

Panic! Have you ever had that horrible surge of panic in your project? Everything is going as expected, if not exactly to plan, and then, without warning, disaster strikes. A contractor comes up and says “the plug in adaptor doesn’t fit, we’re stuck!” or “the pumps gone down and the spare is missing” or “it[…]

Senior managers and PMO staff, in all organisations, increasingly recognise that one of the most efficient ways of ensuring that their projects and programmes deliver the intended value for the organisation is through formal portfolio management. A recent PMI survey [1] reported that 55% of organisations frequently use formal portfolio management, a 5% increase over the previous year.[…]

Innovation has become the new “buzz word” and desired state for organisations in both the private and the public sector. The term “innovation” has been used and, sometimes, overused by a lot of people and organisations. Common to all implicit or explicit definitions is the claim that although “invention” refers to the generation of new[…]

I recently followed a lecture about benefit attribution in change programmes and projects where the presenters from a large organisation were claiming that although benefit attribution is very important to their organisation, it is considered very hard to implement and therefore they do not put any concerted efforts behind it. I found myself carefully considering the various ways[…]