Last month we began to frame up an exercise program to get your portfolio “back in shape” as we started off the New Year. Now is a great time to take a good look at what we originally planned for our business, and what we need to do to drive it to the success we […]
It that time of year again! The holidays are successfully behind us and we begin to look with optimism on what the next year may bring for us and our families. It is also time to think about the changes we would like to make in the upcoming year and when our intentions to make […]
As I write this article, the London Summer Olympics have just wrapped up, giving the world another spectacular show. But looking past the pomp and circumstance and having one of the preeminent world cities as a backdrop, it all comes down to the athletes themselves dazzling us with their efforts and accomplishments. Think about some […]
Projects are becoming a critical part of corporate success yet research tells us that most projects do not fully succeed. According to the 2004 PriceWaterhouseCoopers Survey of 10,640 projects valued at $7.2 billion, across a broad range of industries, large and small, only 2.5% of global businesses achieve 100% project success and over 50% of […]
Unrealistic promises had been made to the client about what a product could do, milestones were published and committed to that could never be met, and timelines were established without any project planning involving the people who would be doing the work. You’ve been asked to manage the project. As John Quinones would say, “What […]
For better or worse office politics is the art of getting things done and whether you like it or not it exists on every project. I realized many years ago that staying away from the politics is not necessarily the best policy and “neutrality” does not guarantee that you would not get affected by the […]
As a project management practitioner I look at my clients’ road maps from three or four years ago compared to now and I see more projects on the plate that need to get done. What keeps me up at night is the number of projects is only going to continue to grow. That means project […]
It’s spring so it is time to dust off your Not-To-Do list and make sure you are tackling the must do’s on your project and not get caught in the details of things a project manager should not be doing. Similar to executives having difficulty identifying the projects that should not be worked on project […]
Something I hear often from people I work with is: ‘We’re getting conflicting messages about the relative importance of some of our projects compared to others. What was once a priority one project seems to have slipped to the back burner but we don’t know why?’ Prioritizing of projects is no easy task. Management seems […]
In 2001 Larry Bossidy stated ‘My job at Honeywell International these days is to restore the discipline of execution to a company that had lost it. Many people regard execution as detail work that’s beneath the dignity of a business leader. That’s wrong. To the contrary, it’s a leader’s most important job.’ As a consultant […]
