Risk

After recently catching up with an past colleague, she mentioned the new engagement she was involved with had the ‘motivational’ posters placed all around the office; you’ll know the ones… the posters with a black border and a photo of a person climbing a mountain with the word Achievement and words of inspiration written underneath ‘it’s hard when you fail, but its worse when you never tried to succeed’. We got into talking about if these posters added value and the verdict is still open, but as the day went by, we also talked about being a realist and the constant…

52 Tips to Break Into Project Management is a great idea by a dear friend and blogger, Geoff Crane @papercutpm – Geoff came up with the idea to ask 52 project people from around the world for their input into writing an ebook for his students. The ebook would collate the tips for his students to ‘break into Project Management’. Geoff’s website www.papercutpm.com has the book with all the tips from PM experts around the world Below is the chapter from PMO Planet Page 37 – It Ain’t Rocket Science ‘I went into Project Management because I was sick and tired…

Are you a Jedi or Sith Project Manager? Yes, I know… love it or hate it, Star Wars has made it into the world of Project Management…. and this blog is not about who has a big lightsaber? Confession Time – I’m a massive Star Wars fan (Love the films but the fan stuff stops at getting dressed up for conferences!), and a couple of years ago I came across the Jedi code, which goes: There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no chaos;…

This has been a frustration of mine for a long time – how many Portfolio’s collect all the Project Risk Logs (or RAIDs) and then say this is the Organisations Portfolio Risk Log….. WRONG!!! The top scoring aggregated Project risks are not Organisational Portfolio risks. There might be the odd one or two which comes from a Project and affects the whole Portfolio, but generally one set of risks focus’s on delivery of a single project (outputs and plans etc), the other should focus on the impact to the Organisations ability to absorb change, and if there is any risk…