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The underlying problems with PRINCE2® (and related ‘Best Practice’ Project Management methodologies)

Do your major projects have a structure similar to the model sketched below? That is, several stages (perhaps each of several or more months), separated by some kind of review meeting. If so, you are probably following a conventional ‘waterfall-style’ … Continue reading

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Taking Costs out of Business Improvement Projects

Introduction With business projects in mind such as; business change, business process design/redesign and IT system implementations, the pressure to reduce project costs can – perhaps perversely it may appear, also be the opportunity to improve the results from the … Continue reading

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On 60-80% project failure rates…

Interesting isn’t it, how what would have been success for the project, only becomes clear to us as we survey the wreckage of its failure. The project should have done this; it should have done that. Confronted with the wreckage, … Continue reading

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