I have been in several projects where the delivery team has been made up of motivated people, even enthusiastic and with the skills and capabilities needed to achieve a successful outcome but with a key deficit. The project itself is not their primary ‘day-job’ but a secondary effort they can put time to, non-dedicated project …
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I’ve just been in a meeting with a project team developing an AI chat tool designed to help users search content and services more easily. They’re moving out of private Beta, with a cohort of users actively engaging and sending feedback. I found myself reflecting on the team members driving this development and who else …
A lot of projects are setup to fail because they have not considered the project success criteria needed from the start. Project Initiation & Planning So many projects are doomed to failure right from the beginning, they just don’t know it yet. It’s a key fact that when you start a project, you don’t know …
A question I’ve asked myself throughout my career is around why do projects fail? It’s a personal impact to me as I work in the projects world. I spend my time in organisations but in ‘temporary bubbles’ called projects and programmes which are spun-up to make some change happen and then disband somewhere down the …
What is the Elastic PMO? – a PMO can be considered as not a ‘thing’. Sounds strange but every organisation is different, they have different norms, behaviours, methods and of course people. Projects in the same way are unique. So are PMOs, different types of controls, processes, reports, templates, etc. I prefer to think of …
See that guy in front? That’s the Project Manager. Guess who’s behind? …yep, you guessed it the PMO (Programme Management Office). “Both are intimately entwined on a perilous journey, going at break-neck velocity, with a single end-point that will not move and will ultimately decide both of their fates.” – Sound familiar? …
There is a big push from lots of consultancies and management speak to achieve ‘value’, and this will lead to many hours and days of teams of people chasing around reporting on this and that, talking of change programmes etc…blah,blah. But if you look at a lot of these initiatives they all head off down …
