Do today’s problems come from yesterday’s perfectly executed solutions? If so, how should we be managing benefits?I’ve been asked to deliver a keynote talk at a benefits management conference and it’s given me an ethical dilemma.
APM’s Conditions for Project Success report provides some useful insights into the reasons why people consider specific project success factors are important.
There’s always a risk when you’re working on projects that you invest the detail of the process with a spurious, level of authority.
We are frequently asked this question, often with the added comment “I organised my wedding brilliantly…I’d be a great project manager”, or “I’m really organised so I must be a good project manager”Organising yourself or an event certainly sounds like good foundations.
Who could possibly take issue with a word such as ‘collaborate’, which according to my on-line dictionary, denotes ‘the action of working with someone to produce something’? There now appears to be an inextricable drive to collaborate across all organisational sectors, in what has been coined ‘the age of alliances’.
I attended Project Challenge in Birmingham in March.
The completion of projects so that they come in by a certain deadline and within the budget that has been set for them ultimately determines whether a business will prosper or fail.
Children are our future, we have heard it seen it written and spoken it so many times.
The recent APM Conditions for Project Success survey gleaned some interesting insights into the current state of project management in the UK.
"70 per cent of projects fail!", or so I am told.