In which I talk about Chesterton's Fence and why you should be wary of removing something if you don't fully understand why it is there in the first place.
Read More
In reality, project reporting is integral to project management. Reports and updates have to be provided to management, the project sponsor and other interested parties. There is no way to avoid that.
However, producing reports benefits the project manager. It gives them a means of showing that everything is under control and progressing well.
Read More
It may be tempting or seem sensible to add certain tasks to your project scope, but if you don’t control this carefully you may end up with a project that is late, over budget or of substandard quality – and the tasks you added may not get any recognition or credit. Here’s how to keep that under control.
Read More
How can we control risks? We can’t just hope that bad things won’t happen!
Each risk needs to be thought about and discussed and what you decide to do will likely fall in to one of these approaches.
Read More
If you need to have equipment installed in a data centre, wiring closet or similar space think about these.
Read More
If you’re managing a project it’s very likely you will have deliveries to organise. They may be full 19-inch racks or smaller items, but here are some of the things to think about:
Read More
It is very important that as the funding approval document is refined and refined that you never lose sight of the purchase orders that need to be raised.
Read More
The most extreme example of this is an establishment that was paying for 230% more telephone users than they actually had. That’s not a typo - they were paying a monthly fee for each of 2,300 telephones registered on their system. After a thorough survey we found they only needed 1,000 telephones.
Read More