Category: PMO
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2021: Is this Your Year of Project Success?
All of us involved in running business know the importance of planning our goals and objectives for each new year and keeping ourselves accountable to these goals. We also understand that it is projects which enable our organisations to execute on its strategy or plans. So we will be setting out our projects for the…
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Brexit and Other Project Failures – How to Avoid Them
The Brexit project seems to be nearing the end game. But is it a project? A project is a temporary piece of work which is unique, risky and brings with it change. Needless to say Brexit fits into this category. “Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong – and what We Can Do about it –…
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As a business owner or senior manager do you get fed up with reinventing, time and time again when starting projects in your organisation? One of the salient reasons for project failures is what is described as “Eternal Beginner Syndrome” (according to Professor Bent Flvybjerg of Oxford University writing in the Project Management Journal on…
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What a Project Manager should NOT do in 3 Letters
Project Managers DO NOT: design and build houses, design and build software, patch software, test software, design and build IT infrastructure, build roads bridges hospitals and affordable homes, upgrade buildings for energy efficiency, improve business processes, ensure business financial legal and regulatory compliance, design and build websites, build water and electricity supply systems, design and write…
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The Value of Project Management
Do any of the following statements sound familiar? What do I have to do to get things done around here We do not have time to plan It’s normal for jobs to overrun that’s just the way things are here We have done this type of project several times, we know what we are…
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Four Simple and Free (to implement) Tips to do Projects Better
Introducing change into any organisation is a challenge at the best of times. Of course, the best way to implement change is to identify and run projects to deliver on your change. But if your projects are always a chore, constantly behind schedule, people doing things differently and the same mistakes appearing regularly, you may…