How does innovation thinking and context affect the way an organisation approaches project management?

During today’s PMChat, we discussed the importance of Project Benefits Management – why it matters, why we often get it wrong and what we can do to improve our project, programme and portfolio outcomes. This is an evergreen topic and is always fun to revisit – we last discussed it in mid-2017. This post gives… [Continue Reading]

You’re on a long project and the finish line is way over the horizon. How do we keep stakeholders interested, when you have a long way to go? An interesting thing happened this week. I’ve been leading an office fit out project in North Sydney since June 2017. When it’s complete later this year, it… [Continue Reading]

Planning. Ugh…it’s so painful. Why, why, why do we bother? Why do we spend hours and hours poring over our charts, our spreadsheets, our resource profiles and our budgets, trying to get them just right? Why do we tie ourselves in knots, working the plans backwards and forwards to make them as clean and…realistic…as possible?… [Continue Reading]

What do you keep in your Project Management toolkit? What are the go-to favourites that you fall back on when you need to get things done? As a freelance Project Manager, I like to keep it old-school and build my practice around the basics. While I’m happy to jump in and use whatever tools and… [Continue Reading]