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Category Archives: project management strategy
“Great news; project budget increased!”
In the immortal words of Victor Meldrew I do not believe it (British humour at its best!). £7million per HOUR for the London Olympics opening and closing ceremonies. This was the headline in The Mail Online The Telegraph on line quoted a cost of £250,000 per day to keep the Olympic site secure with The Guardian suggesting London 2012 Olympics … Read More
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Tagged increased budget, olympic games, olympics, project budget
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Deliver your projects early by …..wait for it..not delivering
Many of you will have heard of the Pareto Principle or the 80:20 rule. In project management terms this means that 80% of the project takes 20% of the time and the other 20% takes 80% of the time. I was reminded of this quote while searching through my mass of materials for some information. I came across some PowerPoint … Read More
This weeks BIG question!
Does the project link to the overall company strategy? Too many projects is the cry I too often hear. But, how many link to the overall strategy of the business. If any project does not cut is the key word. Of course, a clear project list with links back to the strategy would help.
You should reduce project quality to save time and money
OK, let’s start with the get out clause. There are many projects where high quality is essential. To reduce the quality in many projects could (and will) be disastrous. However, there are those projects where more focus on quality standards (reducing them) could save valuable time and money. There are many types of project and for some, high quality and … Read More
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Tagged courses in project management, Project quality, strategy
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Project structure; it killed the project
I did not like what I saw and heard! I had been asked if I would train a group of professional managers who were tasked with delivering some key business projects. According to my contact, “these people are struggling to deliver their projects.” I asked to meet with a few of the project managers to check out needs in more … Read More
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Tagged courses, project, project management training, project structure
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Slash and burn as £2billion of projects cut!
Yesterday, I ran a project management course and spoke about the need for companies to look at their overall portfolio of projects and challenge the list asking among other things: does each project fit with the overall objectives? what are the priorities within the overall list? are there some nice to have rather than essentials? We had an interesting debate and … Read More
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