Project Management and Change Articles

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Andre Malowney writing at a desk, working through project management reference texts and printed process diagrams

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Product Backlog vs Project Scope

A backlog is scope, in the sense that it is managed and ordered. It is not the project's scope, and the difference shows up most sharply at closure.

Requirements vs Scope: Why the Difference Matters

A requirement says what has to be true. Scope says what the project will do about it. Used interchangeably, they cost money in three specific places.

Tailoring Stakeholder Engagement

A project has a finite amount of attention and so do its stakeholders. Spreading both evenly across the list is the one allocation guaranteed to be wrong.

How Do You Know Your Project Communications Are Working?

Bulletins issued, attendance, open rates, a survey score. A project can do well on every one of those while the people who needed to act on something did not.

Monitor Stakeholder Engagement Before Support Starts to Slip

Nobody sends an email withdrawing their support. It degrades through behaviours that are individually explicable and collectively unmistakable, and they are already in your inbox.

From Scope to Structure: Why Breaking Work Down Still Matters

A structure with a branch per department reports steady progress on a project where nothing has moved. Four tests tell you whether the units are right.