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Prove It Works: The Power of Small Experiments
Prove It Works: The Power of Small Experiments I want to share a simple idea that sits at the heart of learning by experimentation. I am working with an organisation that wants to transform how it operates. The goal is clear. The direction is clear. What is less clear is how we get from where
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What is your project’s need for speed?
What is your project’s need for speed? Enjoy delivering highly successful projects. Connect with moments of inspiration. I am working on a project right now where the sponsor is adamant: they want a working version as quickly as possible. On the face of it, the expectation feels intense. Concept, design, testing, working version – in
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How to think big and start small with projects
How to think big and start small with projects I was talking to a consultant doctor recently and they mentioned an NHS IT programme called a “Millennium” project. Because it’s been around since before 2000, and still hasn’t delivered the value it promised. It’s a familiar problem, especially in IT: It takes too long to
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Why you should believe in yourself, this Christmas.
Why you should believe in yourself. Reflecting on how you believe in yourself could be the best present you can give yourself. my confidence story When I first started working as a project manager, I remember feeling stress from a lot of uncertainty, unsure how things would pan out. That feeling changed after I completed
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What I wish I’d known 10 years ago about projects
What I wish I’d known 10 years ago about projects I want to share something I wish I had known 10 years ago. At that time, I was a competent project manager. I had delivered different types of projects and I understood how to run them. What I did not have was a clear language
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How to decide if your work is a project
Why most struggle with this question, and what you can do about it. A Quick Story From a Managing Director Last week, I asked a Managing Director of a medium‑sized business to complete a project Complexity Assessment. • His initiative scored just one point under the formal definition of a project. • But he insisted
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How to apply one of my all-time success factors – modularity
Building with lego Have you ever worked on something big, only for things to begin to unravel as soon as it was built or went live? If so, there’s a high chance that one cause may have been this: your project wasn’t repeating what had worked before. Sounds easy – and it can be. Fixing
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How to choose the best solution
🔶 First: Radically more successful projects (early access) I am personally working on an online tool. Its aim is to make it really easy for you, me, all of us to apply the core Success Factors on our projects.To work, I need to understand the challenges you face and what you would like from a
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You’re first: the new Project Success Playbook
🔶 First: Radically more successful projects (early access) Download: 12 Steps to Predictable Project Success (powered by APEX-4) Download the Playbook → Access to the ultimate project playbook, it’s free. THIS WEEK’S FOCUS In 10 minutes you’ll get: Ten years ago I learned about the real fundamentals for projects. I spent 8 years watching various projects
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How To Get Your Project People Right
THIS WEEK’S FOCUS We continue the focus on the core factors that make for successful projects. Give a great idea to a bad team and they will mess it up. Give a bad idea to a great team and they will make it work Get the wrong people at the wrong time, and you can
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