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.

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.

Matrix, Functional or Projectised? How Structure Changes the PM’s Job

The organisation chart describes reporting lines. What decides a project manager's authority is who sets priority, who writes the appraisal and who holds the budget.

Organisational Process Assets: What They Actually Include

Templates are the visible part and the least valuable. What an organisation knows about how long its own work takes is worth more than any process document it owns.