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Articles on project delivery, governance, risk, predictive, Agile and hybrid practice, alongside a growing PMP® knowledge library for professionals preparing for the current exam.

Tailoring Never Stops: Ongoing Improvement in Delivery

The approach was chosen with the least information the project will ever have. Five visible signals tell you which part of it has stopped earning its place.

The Four-Step Tailoring Process Explained

Four steps, and the order is the part that matters. A great deal of tailoring gets overturned at a gate review because somebody started at step three.

Tailoring the Life Cycle and Development Approach

Two decisions get taken at the same moment and then discussed as one, which is why so many projects call themselves hybrid without being able to say what the hybrid consists of.

What Should You Tailor on a Project?

Around twelve things can be tailored on a project. The three that decide the most are usually the three the team has no authority to touch, which is the whole problem.

Tailoring in Project Management: What It Means and Why It Matters

Tailor to context is the least controversial sentence in project management and one of the hardest to act on, because on most projects nobody is sure they are allowed to.

Focus on Value: The Principle Behind Better Trade-offs

Focus on Value is easy to agree with and difficult to use. Here is how to make value specific enough to settle a real trade-off, and what to tailor so the question stays answerable.