Project Management and Change Articles

Assumption Log vs Risk Register

An assumption is something you have decided to believe without checking. A risk is an uncertain event. The first turns into the second the moment it goes unverified for long enough.

Business Case vs Project Charter: What’s the Difference?

One argues that the work is worth doing. The other authorises it and appoints somebody to run it. A project can hold a valid charter long after its case has gone.

Project Charter Explained: Purpose, Content and Common Misunderstandings

A charter is not a plan and not a business case. It is the document that says this project exists, this person runs it, and these are the limits they work inside.

Tailoring Resource Management for Agile and Hybrid Teams

Adaptive work changes how people are planned and leaves physical resources exactly where they were. Most hybrid resourcing trouble comes from tailoring both the same way.

Team Agreements: Small Document, Large Effect

A page of specific behaviours, written by the people who will follow them, settles more disagreements than any amount of process. The value is in the specificity.

People Are Resources, But Not Just Resources

Planning has to count people in units, and the units stop describing anything the moment the work gets difficult. Both things are true and projects need both.

Practical thinking for project professionals