Category: Programme Management
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What Good Project Goveranace Actually Looks Like
Project governance is often associated with boards, reporting structures, approval processes and meetings. All of these have a place, but they are not governance in themselves. Good governance is fundamentally about how important project decisions are made, challenged and controlled. For major infrastructure projects, that means being clear about who has authority, what evidence is…
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Project Management Software – A Project Managers Perspective
Software tools used to assist with the delivery of projects are very popular these days. These tools range from sophisticated software such as Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 to simple to use tools such as Monday.com. There are lots of online reviews, but this is a project managers perspective. This is based on my experiences…
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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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Are Your Projects Desirable Viable and Achievable?
According to the PMIs (Project Management Institute) Report Success in Disruptive Times 2018, 55% of project failures are as a result of businesses pursuing the wrong projects, projects which will not provide benefits to the businesses or projects whose costs outweigh the benefits provided. This is a staggering figure given that these businesses would…
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Basics of PMO Setup
According to the Project Management Institute; ‘the project management office (PMO) is easing its way into the mainstream. Yet to be truly effective, PMOs must reflect the organisational culture and strategy—or risk being dismissed as an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.’ Those within the profession see a clear ROI and are increasingly implementing PMOs. The State…
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PMO – Squeezing your ROI or just getting things done
Through my training and mentoring work, I get a lot of feed back from the business community to the effect that there seems to be a certain amount of deference towards getting things done within a reasonable and expected timeframe. I find this hard to understand since in business time is money. Of course, we…