Project Management

  The negative ‘behaviour‘ they encourage and the damage they do to real data: In recent years, Project Dashboards have become very popular in major businesses engaged in large-scale projects. The principle behind them is simple and fine (in theory). It is to give visibility to senior managers and executives of the performance of individual projects.…

So who exactly makes the following claim? The current custodians of Prince2 ® (the UK Government’s ageing (1) PM Method), who look after it on their behalf by virtue of winning a contract from which they plan to benefit from, state on their website that Prince2 ® is “Global best practice”. That is quite a claim. This…

In principle it appears fine, in practice, it can be very destructive: One thing we need to be clear on at the start. We are not advocating that Project Managers sit on the shoulders of team members every day so that they see progress and issues. Some will refer to that as micromanagement. At the…

What makes them successful? There are many blog posts and discussions on ‘what makes a great project manager’. It’s a question you could write a book on. Here we are summarising a few important ideas, observations and experiences. Firstly, let’s deal with one point that gets us absolutely nowhere! Places like Linkedin abound with questions like…

  Or maybe you have what many people call the ‘happy plan’ It has been a long-held view among most of the PM community that if you have a project, it is a good thing to have a plan, and most experienced project managers would agree with that. However, when you look at the evidence…

What you will find in this post: This post describes all the core elements of project management. It then describes the origins of PM concepts and techniques. Finally, it describes best practices in recent years. Firstly let’s define project management: Project Management is the combined skills and processes required to define, plan, manage and deliver…

Why Projects ‘fail’: most common project issues Every year organisations spend vast sums on initiatives typically described as ‘projects’.  Every year, there are countless examples of poor delivery performance or major disappointment with their outcome. Results of asking the question literally hundreds of times: PMIS has delivered project management training to leading companies for well…

Business Case, Charter, Risk Register and more: No registration required Terms of Use: The following templates can be used freely by commercial organisations for their internal use only. By downloading any template from this web page you are agreeing to these terms and conditions. Applicability and Tailoring The templates are aimed more at commercial environments, where processes tend…

Practical Guidance on Planning Projects: How do you Plan a Project? It could easily take a whole book to cover this question. In this article, we cover the most important things we always need to do. We also include many lessons learned from practical experience and share many tips that will increase the prospects of…