How Project Sponsors Drive Portfolio Success
Strong project sponsors are essential after portfolio reviews, navigating tough decisions and aligning projects with strategic goals to ensure prioritisation decisions drive meaningful outcomes.
Avoiding Project Turbulence: Lessons from the Control Tower
Much like an air traffic controller keeps the skies safe and efficient, managing a project portfolio requires constant vigilance for shifting benefits, scope creep and changing project interdependencies.
Navigating Project and Portfolio Reviews: The Bigger Picture
While a project review zooms in on specific tasks and milestones, a portfolio review takes a broader, strategic view, focusing on overall performance and long-term success.
Project quality: It doesn’t have to be the enemy of speed
It’s possible to master the golden triangle of speed, cost and quality in project delivery by embedding quality assurance from the start of your project.
Agile Project Delivery: Moving Beyond the Hype
Agile methodology’s benefits are well-known - as are some of its challenges. What do project leaders need to consider about agile delivery post-COVID?
The Perils of a ‘Good News Only’ Culture in Core Platform Projects
In core platform projects, a good news culture can pose challenges for sponsors and leaders. Now consider this. Does your organisation only celebrate success?
Cultivating Success in High-Risk Projects: 3 Strategies for Successful Outcomes
At the heart of successful core platform projects lies a triad of strategies: the analytical clarity of balanced scorecards, the candour of transparent cultures, and the guiding hand of gracious leadership
Core Platform Projects: How Sponsors can Mitigate Delivery Pain
When it comes to project sponsorship, nothing causes more unease than the prospect of a core platform replacement. Thankfully, with the right mindset and support, the pain can be minimised.
Transforming Core Platforms: 4 Common Triggers
There are four common scenarios that are likely to trigger a conversation about core platforms in most businesses. What should you do if your stakeholders are talking?
10 Reasons Projects Fail
Project failures are hardly a unique phenomenon - in fact, most projects are far more likely to fail than to succeed. Here are 10 reasons projects can fail.