Project Management and Change Articles

Developing a Schedule: More Than Putting Dates Against Tasks

A credible schedule is calculated, not typed. The dates fall out of sequence, resource availability and duration, and a plan whose dates came from anywhere else will not survive its first month.

Plan Schedule Management Before Building the Schedule

Most schedule arguments are not about dates. They are about rules nobody agreed: what complete means, whose working week applies, and who is allowed to move a milestone.

Work Breakdown Structure: Still Useful in 2026?

The diagram is optional. What is not optional is having one agreed set of pieces that the estimate, the schedule, the budget and the responsibilities all point at.

Requirements Traceability: More Than a Compliance Exercise

A traceability matrix built for an auditor and never opened afterwards has missed its purpose. The point of tracing is knowing, at any moment, that every agreed requirement still has somewhere to land.

Decision Log: The Forgotten Project Control

Most project decisions are taken in conversation and survive only in memory. Six months later nobody can say what was decided, by whom, or on what basis.

Financial Tailoring: Not Every Project Needs the Same Controls

Applying capital programme controls to a forty thousand pound project consumes more management effort than the project contains, and nobody ever decided to do it.

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