Project Management and Change Articles

Value Delivery in Project Management: What It Means in Practice

A project is one component of five, and value only turns up at the last of them. The two relationships that decide its fate run upward and downward, and both get under-invested.

Outputs, Outcomes, Benefits and Value: What’s the Difference?

Four words used as synonyms, usually by somebody presenting good news. They are four links in one chain, each with a different owner and a characteristic way of breaking.

Project Success Is More Than On Time and On Budget

A project can hit every constraint and fail. Success decomposes into four questions, and only the first of them can be answered while the project manager is still there.

How to Tailor Across the Seven Performance Domains

A uniform reduction across seven domains feels balanced and is the one form of tailoring guaranteed to be wrong somewhere, because the domains do not answer the same dial.

The PMBOK 8 Stakeholders Performance Domain: What It Really Covers

Seven processes, and their arrangement explains the domain better than their names do. One of them identifies; the other six are three activities carried out twice.

Which Conflict Resolution Technique Should You Use?

Collaborate is the received answer and it is right about a third of the time. Choosing well starts with working out what the disagreement is actually about.

Practical thinking for project professionals