Category: project success
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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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What have Projects ever done for us?
I am sometimes asked by clients how to distinguish between “projects” and routine business. It sounds like a straightforward question, but the answer matters more than we might think. If that distinction is unclear, important changes can become lost in daily operations. People are expected to deliver something new while keeping everything else running, often…
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How to Use ISO 21502 and the Global Best Practice Project Methodologies
Organisations execute much of their strategy through projects. Entering markets, introducing products, improving services and transforming operations all require coordinated change. Yet approving a project does not guarantee that the intended business improvement will follow. A team can deliver what was requested, within its agreed budget and timescale, while the organisation gains little value. For…
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Project Business – Which Project Approach is Right?
One of the keys to growth and success in Project led business is standardisation of core functions i.e. the processes and the function of project management. Critical to this is deciding on which project management approach to adopt to deliver your goods or service. There are two mainstream approaches. The Planned (predictive) and Agile (adaptive)…
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How to Grow and Thrive as a Project Business
In my last post Project based Businesses and how they are different? I discussed the identification of a project business, i.e. your core business function is project management. Identifying as a Project Business will help you prioritise and enhance your business activities and assets properly. You will clearly understand how to structure your business and what systems…
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What is a Project Based Business and how is it different?
Project Business Most businesses can be categorised by the type of goods or services they provide to their customers or by the industry sector which they relate to. Project based businesses manage their primary business activities through projects. They are sometimes called Project-Centric or Project-Driven businesses. These companies operate in industries such as Engineering, Architecture,…