Project Management and Change Articles

Think in Systems, Not Silos

Adopting a holistic view means judging each project decision by where its effects land across the whole system. It matters most when a local fix looks like a success on its own measures and causes problems somewhere else.

Project Knowledge: How to Stop Lessons Walking Out the Door

Most lessons are captured at the point where they can no longer help the project that produced them. Here is how to manage project knowledge while the work is still running, so the reasoning behind decisions stays usable.

One Project Plan, Not Ten Separate Plans

Subsidiary plans are usually written by different people answering different questions, and they stop agreeing with each other long before anyone notices. Two practical tests will tell you whether your project is running one plan or ten.

Starting a Project: What Should Be Decided Before the Work Begins?

Most projects are already underway by the time anyone signs a charter. Here is what genuinely has to be settled before work begins, what can safely stay open, and how to re-establish the basics on a project that never had them.

Tailoring Risk Management to the Project

Two projects of similar size and budget can justifiably run risk management at very different intensities. Here is how to decide which setting yours needs, and which parts of the process to move.

Predictive Project Management Still Has a Place

Predictive delivery has quietly become the approach teams apologise for. Here is how to judge when defining the work up front is the stronger choice, and what that choice actually commits you to.

Practical thinking for project professionals