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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Project Diagnostics: When Your Delivery Approach Is Not Working

A project in trouble produces symptoms that all look alike. Separating a hard problem from a struggling team from a method that does not fit takes about thirty minutes.

Tailor for the Project You Actually Have

Most tailoring is done for the project as it was bid, or for one somebody ran two years ago that looked similar from a distance. Five plain facts fix that.

Tailor for the Organisation Before Tailoring for the Project

The step sets the space your own tailoring has to fit inside. It also does something less obvious and worth more: it tells you what the project does not have to build.

Selecting the Initial Development Approach

The choice gets made when the project knows least about itself. Two properties of the work give a first answer in an hour, and three constraints can overrule it.

Tailoring Processes Without Losing Discipline

Tailoring and corner-cutting look identical in a plan. They differ in whether anybody can still answer the question the process existed to answer.

Tailoring Never Stops: Ongoing Improvement in Delivery

The approach was chosen with the least information the project will ever have. Five visible signals tell you which part of it has stopped earning its place.