Category Archives: Project Management in Practice

Practical project management posts

4 Steps to Chairing Effective Meetings

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting. – Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004). There can be few readers who have not experienced lengthy, time wasting … Continue reading

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Effective Risk Management in 5 Steps

Risk is inherent in all our projects (and, in fact all we do).  Risks are often considered in an informal way by the project manager when planning and devising project strategies, but a more disciplined approach to risk management minimises … Continue reading

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Improve your Peformance by Measuring Successes and Failures

Previous posts on Project Management Insight have looked at project ‘failures’ and learning from mistakes. This post considers the use of performance measurement to establish where projects and programmes lie on the continuum between failure and success and the application … Continue reading

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‘Black Swans’ sink Projects!

Recent research published in the Harvard Business Review Magazine asserts that ‘black swans’ – low probability high impact events – are sinking many projects, particularly in the IT sector. The research considered 1,471 large-scale IT projects and suggests that they … Continue reading

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Learn from Project ‘Failures’ – Part 1

Our last Project Management Insight article considered how we can learn from mistakes on our projects.  ‘Project Failures’ are more common than most of us would like to acknowledge, although some care is necessary in defining ‘failure’. This post is … Continue reading

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