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The Project Sponsor Just Doesn’t Care…

And the project is going nowhere! HELP!

Here’s a story to consider.

Sam has just been assigned a major project to install and implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system within his company. The company has 75 employees and has been in business a number of years. There are sales and marketing folks within the […]

Yet Another Project Team Meeting

Is anything going to get done!

A friend of mine is involved in a large project for her company. She called me the other night exasperated about a recent team meeting (“Yet another one!” she shouted). The project she was involved in was started three months ago. Since then she has been in meetings three […]

Project Managers – Are You Getting Involved in the Business of the Company?

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a client on helping them to get their high potential employees on a path to leadership roles within the business. I noticed that their project managers were not on the “high potential list.” (Mind you I have come up against this situation before.) When I asked […]

Project Management Haiku

Sponsor gives the task With Impossible deadline Insanity rules

Create Gantts to show Path to achieving success Thanks, M.S. Project

Kick-off not so good Resources are all tied up Late the day we start

Panic already Project reviews are painful But no help in sight

Schedule slipping right Costs are increasing daily Metrics board bright […]

Peer Reviews For Programmes and Projects

It doesn’t matter how dedicated your team of programme and project managers are every now and again they can benefit from a fresh set of eyes taking a look at what’s going on. A team that is ‘heads down’ in delivery mode can sometimes suffer from groupthink and perhaps become blinkered into thinking their approach […]