Value Delivery in Project Management: What It Means in Practice

A project is one component of five, and value only turns up at the last of them. The two relationships that decide its fate run upward and downward, and both get under-invested.

Outputs, Outcomes, Benefits and Value: What’s the Difference?

Four words used as synonyms, usually by somebody presenting good news. They are four links in one chain, each with a different owner and a characteristic way of breaking.

Project Success Is More Than On Time and On Budget

A project can hit every constraint and fail. Success decomposes into four questions, and only the first of them can be answered while the project manager is still there.

Project Governance vs Organisational Governance: What’s the Difference?

Project governance is the interface between a piece of work and the rules of the organisation around it. Knowing which parts you inherit saves a great deal of wasted effort.

PMO Maturity Models: Useful Diagnostic or Corporate Theatre?

A maturity assessment measures which practices are present, which is a genuinely useful thing to know and a long way from knowing whether the practices help.

Which PMO Model Fits Your Organisation?

The PMO model question is usually asked as a choice between three labels. The answer comes from what your organisation needs decided, and who it will let decide it.

Practical thinking for project professionals