I have just come away from another workshop, with another group of clever and hard working project people, in another “fast paced” global firm. Wherever I go I try to get the same simple message across: THINK SLOW AT THE START AND MOVE FASTER LATER. Despite Aesop and countless other story tellers before and since, […]
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The futile Project Review
The name “Project Review” gives a “How NOT2” Project Manager every excuse to make it a monumental waste of people’s time. Okay, there are things to be gained from reviewing the past, but why not write those up (succinctly) and pass them round before the meeting? Unless the team has a time machine, not much […]
How NOT 2 plan a project. A cunning plan?
What is it we have against putting a plan together? Why does thinking something through seem to be so dimly viewed? Leadership? – “I didn’t get where I am today by thinking about things”. Often the people I meet in Middle Earth (somewhere between first day newbies and the Chief Exec) are perfectly able and […]