In recent time I’m frequently asked about the difference between project and programme management. In deed the boundaries in practice are often blurred, structures, roles and responsibilities are often not defined and practiced differentiated. That’s exactly where the pitfalls are for a programme manager to meet the stakeholders’ expectations, and
Did you ever wonder what your project managers (PMs) do all day long? In one of my other articles here you can read a survey about this, and how PMs are “misused” for “work “foreign for the species”. In addition to that PMs often can only do their job “at
In many of my articles I described which mistakes, made already at the start of a project, merely by default lead to project distresses. But of course I have often seen also things that made even initiatives suffer or die which had been started in the best intend and with
Projects are the part of the enterprise where it is adapting to changing requirements from market, laws, society etc. Corporate changes and advancements always happen in projects. Without these changes there would be no progress but stagnation in the company, soon followed by “death”. So projects are a must in
In the first part of my article I have shown how particularly big companies and public authorities merely pre-program bad success, delays, and cost increases in their projects and investments. This second part is to look at the reasons why these troubled projects do not or insufficiently receive help to
Recently I came over another statistic which states that more than half of all projects do not meet their time, cost, or quality objectives, and that 19% are even cancelled without having achieved any benefit. At a volume of ca. $820 Billions in IT projects alone this equals a total
There are lots of statistics and reports about why projects get into distress, see also mine in my blog. In my seminars about this topic I’m frequently asked what to do if a project is stuck in issues to get it back on track. I’d like to reflect this part
Have you ever experienced disputes with one of your customers or suppliers about the status and / or settlement date of deliveries, and/or about who is responsible for the deviations from the initially planned ones? This situation actually is not very unusual, and the possible causes are as diverse as
