Here’s an interesting case study for you. Again, it’s a true story from the front line vault, and after you’ve read the list of findings, you might give some thought, before reading on, as to how you might have dealt with this project. Where to begin? What are the core issues? And importantly, how do you resolve those issues and get straight to work on the best quality processes to reach successful outcomes? read more
I’m truly excited to publish this case study which is to be the first in an occasional series entitled ‘Stories from the front line’.
Case studies are useful reference tools for PMs. They allow us to examine and better understand a project path, in effect, what happened and why. They also allow us to analyse and identify real-life, real-time problems, and in doing so, the how, why and ’what the?’ questions are more easily isolated & unravelled. Of course no project, program or portfolio follows the same path, but the hindsights of thoroughly researched case studies enable us to implement effective solutions and improve best practice strategies. I encourage you to comment on this biotech study – send me your thoughts! read more
Some Clearing / Cleansing Emotions
I just have to have a bleat about people who espouse project management approaches when in fact they ‘know nothing’ (said with Hogan’s Heroes accent). I have decided once and for all that there is a massive difference project management and project execution. Once upon a time, management could expect that a PM would deliver an outcome; now it seems all too often that PMs are simply mystified when, having done everything by the book, the project is a mess. Perhaps there’s something wrong with the book?