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Making change stick: there are no secrets to being in the 30percentcrew…
… So why do around 70% of all change initiatives end in failure? Much of the advice given on this subject tends to be general, academic, non-specific, obvious but not always pragmatic. Well here are...
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PMI’s – Pulse of the Profession
The Project Management Institute, the world’s largest project management association, has completed a survey of the state of project, program and portfolio management in 2012, with feedback from over...
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Projects, programmes and portfolios – why use different approaches?
Portfolios, programmes, projects – these words are often used with little insight and understanding. Perhaps an analogy from World War Two can help shed some light: Projects and portfolios Let’s look...
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The true five rings of project success
1. The problem you are trying to solve. If you do not have clarity on this then you are doomed. 2. The objective (the end point). This defines when the project will close. 3. The critical success...
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It’s all about results
Do you remember having a PCO? In days of yore it meant you had a Project Control Office. You’d be unlikely to find one called that now – far too old fashioned and misguided! Most transformed...
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What qualities should my project management community focus on to become...
It’s a common problem: my change management function is dominated by professional project managers who are good at delivery, but fail to see the bigger picture when it comes to managing business...
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Should we be surprised?
Headlined by The Times as ‘The £300m train crash’, the Government has admitted a huge blunder in the awarding of the West Coast Main Line franchise. It appears that inflation and rising passenger...
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Agile has gone mainstream
It is no longer the preserve of a self-selected group of devotees, but is now being discussed, and implemented, by CIOs and Change Directors in major organisations across a variety of industries where...
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