Project Management and Change Articles

Why Organisational Knowledge Repositories Matter

Every organisation has one and most of them go unused, because the thing a project needs is a specific answer and what the repository offers is four thousand documents.

Policies, Processes and Procedures: When Each Matters

When a project is blocked by a rule, the first useful question is which of the three you are facing, because the answer tells you who can change it and how long that takes.

Performance Measurement Baseline: What Are You Really Measuring Against?

Scope, schedule and cost measured separately can each look acceptable while the project is in trouble. An integrated baseline is what stops that happening.

Controlling Procurements: Contract Management After the Award

Most of what goes wrong with suppliers happens after signature, and a fair share of it is the buyer failing obligations nobody on the buyer's side was tracking.

RFP vs RFQ vs IFB vs ITT: Which Procurement Document Should You Use?

The choice follows one question: can you specify what you want, or do you need suppliers to propose how? Getting it wrong produces compliant bids for the wrong thing.