Project Management and Change Articles

The Four-Step Tailoring Process Explained

Four steps, and the order is the part that matters. A great deal of tailoring gets overturned at a gate review because somebody started at step three.

Tailoring the Life Cycle and Development Approach

Two decisions get taken at the same moment and then discussed as one, which is why so many projects call themselves hybrid without being able to say what the hybrid consists of.

What Should You Tailor on a Project?

Around twelve things can be tailored on a project. The three that decide the most are usually the three the team has no authority to touch, which is the whole problem.

Tailoring in Project Management: What It Means and Why It Matters

Tailor to context is the least controversial sentence in project management and one of the hardest to act on, because on most projects nobody is sure they are allowed to.

Why Processes Came Back in PMBOK 8

Forty processes are back and none of them is compulsory, which raises a fair question about what an optional process is for. The answer starts with what the absence cost.

Planning Stakeholder Engagement: Different People Need Different Strategies

Setting out to make forty people enthusiastic spends a year of engagement effort on an outcome nobody needed. The useful question is where each person has to get to.

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