This is an account of the winning entry in Project Data Analytics Community‘s Project Hack 23. Challenge Overview – Anticipating Assurance Challenges and Lessons in Major Projects The project management community struggles to exploit the thousands of lessons learned from projects across the profession. As a community we keep making the same mistakes time and…
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This one is about end user engagement in change. The point being made here is that if as a user (the people on the right) you aren’t prepared to articulate what you want, don’t be surprised if you don’t like what you get. And no, “isn’t it obvious?” doesn’t count. Sometimes the idea of a change can seem…
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The experience of running projects contains insights that ought be useful to organisations and individuals, yet very often this useful knowledge is not fully or effectively exploited. Does your organisation learn all that it could from its delivery experience? See if you recognise anything in the post below… How can you tell your organisation is…
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To get the best out of people, a group lesson session needs to foster the right atmosphere, ask the right questions, and encourage the right behaviours. This can be achieved very effectively by having the lesson-gathering session(s) run by someone completely independent of the project or even the organisation. What are the benefits of having…
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You’re bought into the idea of having your project or programme retrospective run independently. So what should you look for in a partner to run your retrospective? Knowledge This is about whether the partner has a good understanding of the processes involved in identifying and capturing insights, and turning these into actionable learning. Do they understand how…
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I was booked by Lindsay Scott of the House of PMO to deliver a webinar on setting up and working as a contractor. It was important to me that it went well, because I was also going to use the webinar to launch a brand new business – The PMO Professionals. I had some (ahem!)…
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I’ve been thinking about authenticity and the way that Project Managers [PMs] and PMO professionals present themselves in the professional arena. I saw a LinkedIn post a while back highlighting a vacancy advert requiring that the PM had previous experience of managing ‘ugly’ projects, and recounting experience of having interviewed multiple PMs whose projects had…
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This post uses the lessons learned process framework in my book to describe what I learned from producing my #OpenToWork video series.
View detailsI recently published my book . My former colleague Andrew Fleming commented “Well done on the book. What lessons did you learn from writing it?” As that’s a really good question, I thought I’d answer it properly in the form of this blog post. So what did I learn? Here are my top five learning…
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I’ve always had something of a bee in my bonnet about lessons learned. It saddens me to think that many organisations don’t fully exploit the learning that passes under their noses every day from running projects. I have long thought that there must be something that we in the project management community can do to…
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