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

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Procurement Strategy: Decide How You Will Buy Before You Go to Market

How the work is divided into contracts decides where the gaps will be. That decision is usually made for administrative reasons and lived with for years.

Change Log vs Issue Log

One records decisions about what the project will deliver. The other records problems that have to be resolved. Confusing them is how scope moves without anybody deciding.

End Users Are Stakeholders Too

End users hold no formal authority over a project and decide entirely whether its output gets used. Being represented by somebody senior is not the same as being asked.

How Project Managers Provide Organisational Insight

Projects find out how an organisation actually works, because they are the things that run into it. Almost none of that ever reaches the people who could act on it.

Where Expertise Ends and Leadership Begins

A project manager who knows the subject has an advantage and a trap. The advantage is better questions. The trap is answering them before anybody else gets the chance.

Who Actually Provides Oversight on a Project?

Oversight is a function that has to happen, not a committee that has to exist. Plenty of projects have five forums watching them and nobody able to decide anything.