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Project Management is a Life Skill that Everyone Should Have

Project Management is a Life Skill that Everyone Should Have

Recently I wrote something entitled ‘EVERYONE IN YOUR ORGANISATION SHOULD LEARN PROJECT MANAGEMENT – HERE’S WHY’. I’d go even further than that. Project management is a life skill that everyone – Project Managers, everybody else, kids – should have. I’m not talking about methodologies like Prince2 or something like Agile. Instead it’s something far simpler. …

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Everyone in Your Organisation Should Learn Project Management – Here’s Why

Everyone in Your Organisation Should Learn Project Management – Here’s Why

Well, quite simply because we all do projects. Even if they’re small, even if we think of them as one-person projects, project management ensures that these projects got done as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible. But this project management can’t be the heavy-duty stuff of the big methodologies. This project management has to be …

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OVERCOMING COBB’S PARADOX – A WORLD IN WHICH ALL PROJECTS SUCCEED

OVERCOMING COBB’S PARADOX – A WORLD IN WHICH ALL PROJECTS SUCCEED

In 1995, Martin Cobb, then CIO for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, asked a question which has since become known as Cobb’s Paradox. He said: ‘We know why projects fail; we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?’ ‘We know why projects fail’ Well … we sort-of do. …

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If ‘Can I Get my Project Done Quicker’ is the Question, then Planning at the Day Level of Detail is the Answer

If ‘Can I Get my Project Done Quicker’ is the Question, then Planning at the Day Level of Detail is the Answer

If you think about it in its simplest terms, when any project is executed – something tiny like making dinner, all the way up to something massive, like Brexit – the project happens because a sequence of jobs is carried out. To be even more precise, each day of the project, each one of a …

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The 4 Types of Project Manager

The 4 Types of Project Manager

Earlier this year, the Harvard Business Review published an article called The 4 Types of Project Manager. The article described how different types of growth opportunities require different types of project managers to run them. It’s a good article. It’s been my experience that there are indeed four types of project manager – though in …

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How to Estimate Anything Accurately

How to Estimate Anything Accurately

Okay, so hopefully we’ve established https://fastprojects.org/2017/08/23/we-dont-have-time-to-plan-it-just-go-do-it/ that planning is a good idea and that the alternative – ‘we don’t have time to plan it – just go do it’ is, to put it mildly, rather dumb. But how can we estimate accurately when estimation is – basically – predicting the future and something that no …

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