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Tony Adams, Project Manager

Project Leader, Consultant, Speaker, Mentor, Writer

Project Leadership with a human- centered design focus

I bring human-focused design thinking to Project Leadership - blending traditional project management practices with a design focus, to keep the client's voice at the center of everything we do!

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"Be open minded to the discovering process that's embedded in design thinking...and be clear that no matter how clever one is, we don't always know the future..."

Hugo Sarrazin, Director, McKinsey

From the Blog

  • Value chain thinking gives us a valuable toolkit to help pinpoint innovation opportunities within our project delivery practice.

    Project Innovation – a Value Chain Approach

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

    Project Innovation and “Crossing the Chasm”

  • 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]

    Benefits Management – How We Can Help

  • 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]

    It’s A Long Project. Are We There Yet?

  • 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]

    Planning. Why Do We Bother?

Latest Posts

Design Thinking, Innovation Workshop

This week, I went to a fabulous 2-day workshop with the good folk at Monash University, during which we spoke about innovation practices in both commercial and non-commercial project environments. Challenging, tiring, exciting, intense, interesting! We used a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on human centered design thinking and process improvement as two lenses through which to […]