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Why Certainty is Bad.

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 09:42:23 +0000

Come with me on a journey, if you will, to Perfectville, a wonderful place, where everything goes to plan. Always, All the time. No exceptions. Everything goes exactly as you would expect it to, and you know about it in advance. There is no lottery, because gambling and risk don’t exist. They don’t need to. […]

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Why Agile is Cobblers.

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 21:32:03 +0000

Where I come from we have a turn of phrase: “That’s a load of cobblers”.I’m sure you can work out what it means. And using Agile as a holistic business management or project management methodology is a very large steaming pile of it. The four values are little more than a thinly-veiled zero-sum game of […]

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Blog #30 Stirring the POT

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:02:26 +0000

Guess blogger talks PMO in cross reference to podcast episodes old and new.

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Blog#29 The ‘F***’ Word

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 23:31:44 +0000

4 letters. Starts with an F. Typically used when things aren’t going so well, and frowned upon in certain circles … Yes, you guessed it – Fail. But here’s the deal – we are afraid to talk about it, and we’re definitely afraid to do it. And why is this? Maybe because our systems of […]

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Blog#28: Is now the right time for a career move?

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:30:48 +0000

As someone with 15 years+ of experience in Project Controls and passionate about the future of this sector, I would be keen to share my thoughts with you and provide some market insight. I hope you find the below of interest and if you would like to know more, please do get in touch. The […]

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Blog#27: The Secret to Success

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:05:29 +0000

Yeah, thanks for that ancient Greek guy, but what does that even mean?Excellence is an outcome, and an outcome is the end result of a series of connected events?A sequence. A product of thousands of individual choices over an extended period of time, sometimes disguised as a process, but sometimes not. I personally feel this […]

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Blog#26: Building a Change Culture

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:01:40 +0000

Every project starts with good intentions. But as one of my mentors said, good intentions does not equal good results. The conundrum then is not the intent of doing a good job but the act. The more we do the less we see, and it’s when projects start, that the change cycle really begins. Change […]

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Blog#25: Ways to explain Project Controls

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 05:57:34 +0000

Over the years when I’ve joined new teams or started working with different people I’ve had various conversations on where Project Controls fits in a project. I thought I’d share some of the odd analogies that have come up. Project Controls is like a Police force Project Controls are the police of the project. When […]

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Blog#24: Do you have Integrity?

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 05:52:36 +0000

A quick google search will give you a Wikipedia page that starts with the following definition: “Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one’s actions.” I haven’t […]

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Blog#23: What’s YOUR Problem?

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:53:51 +0000

What’s your problem, anyway? In a highly specialised society, with all the trimmings, distractions, applications, devices, gadgets, widgets and life hacks that make a 21st-century human existence, it’s all too easy to forget the basics. We didn’t used to be this way. This is not where we started.We lived in small groups, taking care of […]

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