Project Management and Change Articles

The Project Team Is Not the Project Manager’s Staff

The project manager owns whether the commitments are met. The team owns how the work is done. Most friction on a project is one of the two reaching across that line.

What Sponsors Should Do, and What They Shouldn’t

A sponsor holds four things nobody else can hold. Most sponsorship problems are one of those four going unattended while the sponsor helps with something else.

Feedback Is a Project Control, Not a Courtesy

Asking people what they think after the design is fixed is a courtesy. Asking while an answer could still change something is a control, and it is cheaper than rework.

Matrix, Functional or Projectised? How Structure Changes the PM’s Job

The organisation chart describes reporting lines. What decides a project manager's authority is who sets priority, who writes the appraisal and who holds the budget.

Organisational Process Assets: What They Actually Include

Templates are the visible part and the least valuable. What an organisation knows about how long its own work takes is worth more than any process document it owns.