“I have a longstanding interest in project failure.” How’s that for an interview response? Seriously if you don’t understand why things go wrong, how can you be certain you won’t break them? We don’t know all the answers, but we know enough to recognise that project planning can play a…
Are you ready to move on? I am. I didn’t choose to be confined to barracks for two months by this wretched virus. I’ve been lucky, I’ve not been personally afflicted and neither have my nearest and dearest (yet), but I had many places to go and things to do…
I have worked in construction on a full-time basis on and off since 1986. In those years I have spent time on site delivering projects and, in the office, providing planning and commercial support. My employers and clients have been one-man bands and multi-national blue-chip entities that employ thousands of…
How Well Do You Know Your Professional Network I’d be surprised if many readers are unaware of the concept of Six Degrees of Separation aka Small Worlds Theory, popularised by serious research and less serious, but entertaining, literature, games and game shows. Are you familiar with the theory of Three…
“I have seem projects fail for lack of proper standards so I made the decision at the start of my career that I would adhere to proper standards and working practices, joining the British Computer Society was part of the plan.” Richard Robson BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT champions…
Richard Robson the MD of Project Pilots reviews the book Project Management for Dummies :- We Project Pilots aren’t Project Managers, we can do project management and of course we can manage our own efforts, but we leave it to the second princes, black belts and scrum masters to dedicate…
A man is known by the company he keeps! Firstly an apology for the gender bias in the title, those are not my own words; they are a 2500 year old pearl of wisdom. You may be familiar with this sentiment even if you can’t recall the particular Aesop’s Fable…
Do you need to evaluate your project plan? Worried about the quality of your project schedules? Want a health check on your project schedule? Project Pilots can help you assess your project quality? DCMA 14 Point Schedule Quality Assessment The 14 Point Assessment, developed by the (US) Defense Contract Management…
UDFs – The Smiling Assassins Hold the presses, someone’s being critical of User Defined Fields, a cherished and much used feature of Primavera. It can’t be right to call them The Smiling Assassins, can it? Well yes it can, because typically they are not so much “much used” but…
Migrating your Project Plan as easy as 1,2,3 A new year and a new project planning tool It is easy, isn’t it? You’ve been managing your project in one planning tool and you need to migrate it to another. It’s just a matter of finding a mutually compatible format and…
