Project Management

When faced with the realities of project delivery and managing stakeholders, we have to know just how capable we are of influencing both upwards and outwards.

Focusing on the benefits of any project to the organisation is a critical lens for assessing risk and opportunity.

While we’re all for standardising how it is adopted within an organisation, successful Agile projects require more than tools and frameworks.

No matter how well a project appears to be travelling, it can be quickly derailed by poor management of stakeholders.

Ego can be a positive or negative in project delivery, however whether it’s an asset or a distraction, it’s important to be able to call out behaviour that isn’t acceptable.

Despite the critical role of knowledge sharing in contemporary organisational success, the fact remains that in many firms such exchange does not occur.

We often see challenges in new sponsors getting to grips with their role in shaping and supporting their projects.

It would be easy to dismiss Space X as the technical plaything of a billionaire but what if their follies lead to innovation because they are prepared to risk and fail?

As far as change projects go Brexit is the ultimate poisoned chalice.

The way that cost and budget are communicated in project management is something of an art – once the numbers are posted, there’s very little, if any, opportunity to turn back.