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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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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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 …
Obviously, the only way you can know for sure whether your project is in trouble or not is to (a) have a properly estimated plan and (b) be monitoring properly against it. Those issues are discussed elsewhere on www.fastproject.org. However, there are a number of signs I have seen over the years which are guaranteed …
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 …
Don’t know if you’ve ever heard somebody – typically, a boss or a manager – say ‘we don’t have time to plan it – just go do it’. And maybe you’ve wondered if this is good advice / a good strategy / good management practice. After all, they’re probably more senior to you, more highly …