Insights on project management consulting, PMO setup, and IT project delivery — practical lessons from real-world programmes.
Every failed project we have ever been called to rescue had one thing in common: a stack of green status reports. The project was drowning, and the reporting said swimming. There is even a name for it, the watermelon project: green on the outside, red on the inside. Fixing that is not a template problem;…
Nobody calls a rescue manager when things are going well. By the time an IT project rescue is on the table, the symptoms are usually the same: milestones slipping for the third time, a steering committee that has stopped believing the status report, a vendor and a client quietly blaming each other, and a sponsor…
Most project businesses don’t lose money on the projects they fail. They lose it on the projects they deliver successfully, and then under-bill, bill late, or never bill at all. The work happens. The value is created. And somewhere between the timesheet and the invoice, a slice of it simply evaporates. For any organisation that…
Ask a founder why startups fail and you’ll hear about the idea, the market, the competition. Ask the data, and a quieter answer emerges: most of them run out of money, and they run out of money because they couldn’t see it coming. CB Insights, analysing hundreds of startup post-mortems, found that running out of…
One in five enterprise projects still misses its goals. Here is why IT projects fail, and how disciplined project management and a right-sized PMO keep delivery on track.