For many years our company motto has been, ‘Bringing common sense to the seemingly irrational world of people, projects and therefore politics’. Alongside that, our mission continues to be, ‘to improve the state of the art in project management’. But project is wrong in both cases. Our concern is ‘the whole need’. Project is such […]

The Earth is Flat. The Earth is the Centre of the Universe… …and equally #FlatEarth…Projects have a clear beginning and a clear end. They are successful when they deliver to cost time and scope. …and…A programme is a temporary flexible organization structure created to coordinate, direct and oversee the implementation of a set of related projects […]

Verification and Validation are two terms sometimes used interchangeably and sometimes used with swapped meaning. The meaning, I think, most widely accepted (Eg ISO, PMI/ PMBoK, APM & APMBoK, IEEE, BS, DIN…) is: VERIFICATION is in-process – ongoing during development of the product. It means “is built to standards” or “matches the specification” VALIDATION is […]

Control of Portfolio, Program and Project Needs Data To oversee change requires two things. In fact it isn’t change we should single out; it’s governance – full stop. Change is just a part of the whole. The whole is governance. Governance is the care of assets. Typically the care by some people of the assets […]

When I started to feel I knew enough about projects to ask good questions I concluded most of what I was told and saw in use is unequal to the needs of businesses.Jump to The Steps For example: if people are the hardest and most important part of change where is the psychology and sociology? […]