24.08.2010 Conferences No Comments

AOM 2010 Montreal (Day Four – Part 2)

Hi again,  and thanks for all the emails, as you know it’s one of my favourite subjects.  Getting back to the conference though,  I attended a standout standing-room only session. ‘Do The Right Thing’ and find out why!   read more

01.03.2010 Case Studies No Comments

Stories from the front line – Banking

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

22.02.2010 Case Studies No Comments

Stories from the front line – a Biotech industry study

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