The Exceptional Sponsor: 5 Keys to Success
Exceptional sponsors are the proverbial unicorn: Rare as hen’s teeth, highly valued if you can find one, and one of the most important assets you’ll ever have in delivering successful projects.
Designing Flight: Transparency vs Spin in New Tech Delivery
Innovation is fraught with risk so what can we learn from how two major global players manage the risk as well as the stakeholder experience of the journey?
The Challenges of Risk: Why Do We Keep Getting Blindsided?
If forewarned is fore-armed, why is it that managing risk continues to be a significant challenge for organisational project delivery?
Speaking Truth to Power: The Challenges of a “Good News” Culture
There are important lessons and consequences for leaders beyond the financial sector and their teams in what happens when only the good news story is told.
Killing a Project: Who Decides?
Starting a project is easier than killing one and while no one likes to see a project die, there are some realities around the potential for success that means we have to ask the hard questions about viability and priorities.
Seizing Opportunity: Enabling Agility in Delivery
In sport we hear about ‘defensive structure’ and ‘offensive agility’: Can you utilise and leverage both at the same time to seize unexpected opportunities in project delivery?
Good News or Bad News: Stating it “like it is”
What happens when organisations favour good news over bad? Can we take the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ out and really state it like it is?
Agile Assurance: Embedding QA for Continuous Delivery
Is it possible to embed assurance in an agile way so that it is possible to manage up without stifling a project's innovation or delivery?
Manage the Message or Manage the Project: Why WestConnex Fails the Transparency Test
High profile projects attract a high level of scrutiny and this major Sydney infrastructure project is no exception.
Assurance is not a Dirty Word: Going Beyond the PIR
When you’ve worked in project management for as long as we have, it still confounds us that organisations are not embracing assurance as a cornerstone to good project outcomes.