Tag Archive: strategy

Green shoots

Sometimes, even when things are going well with our project delivery, we change the way that we deliver the projects to try and perhaps gain some extra margin. By changing what works, we can end up making things worse,not better!

Managing a straight line!

Projects never run in a completely linear manner, even if they are planned to do so. This is especially true when operational resources are required for project delivery. Planning of their time is critical and needs to be done correctly at project inception. If done correctly, the project will succeed. If not, it won’t hit it’s dates.

Two rabbits

As a project manager, it is important not to micro-manage every issue that crops up. If a project manager tries to focus on everything, nothing will get done well. It is important to be able to delegate and rely on others to resolve issues and to maintain a view to achieving the end result.

Going full circle

We must all learn lessons from prior projects in order to protect and then grow our project profit margins. Without this learning, maring will never increase that can threaten the very existence of the business itself.

All fuss and bother!

Culture of a company or country can make a large difference to how a project is run. Inevitably in any culture, there

Creative, not prohibitive

Project managers need to do more than just follow process in order to allow a project to succeed. To get the best out of their project team, they must allow for creativity. To encourage team participation. To create an open project team environment.

Rage against the machine!

Businesses are challenged by clients to continiously reduce the cost of delivery. The drive is focused on cost and services businesses allow clients to undervalue what they are recieving. Mainly because so many businesses are just “the same” and have not created a value proposition that enables them to maintain their pricing.