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Category Archives: Best Practice

Programme interdependencies. Domino theory!

February 26, 2013by Neil A Walker 1 Comment

Yesterday, I wrote about how interdependencies between projects create complexities for the management of the both projects and programmes. It’s inevitable that interdependencies across projects and programmes will have some […]

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Best Practice, Programme Management

Don’t “reinvent the wheel”

February 1, 2013by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

I read an interesting blog posted today on the Association of Project Management site, entitled “Cycle of success” by Andrew Hubbard. Andrew starts his post with one of my favourite Winston Churchill quotes […]

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Lessons Learned, Project Management Musings

Proof, but not in the pudding!

May 15, 2012by Neil A Walker 2 Comments

“The proof is in the pudding”, was my customers endorsement of my decision to proceed with a proof of concept (POC). As discussed in my previous article “Proof is in the […]

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Lessons Learned, Risk Management

Proof is in the pudding!

May 12, 2012by Neil A Walker 1 Comment

“The proof is in the pudding”, I had half expected my customer to recite these words to me in response to the discussion I had just had with the project […]

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Lessons Learned

More Effective Collaboration with Geographically Dispersed Project Teams

March 12, 2012by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

As technology advances, software companies rise to the challenge of providing ever more useful (and often not so useful) software to improve our lives. Since 2007 I have been exploiting […]

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Lessons Learned, Project Management, Team Management

Project Management Excellence Initiatives

March 31, 2011by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

At the utmost level, project management is the conduit between strategy and success for organisations. More and more organisations are realising this and are aiming to achieve project management excellence. […]

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Best Practice, PPM Excellence

Managing Stakeholder Expectations

March 25, 2011by Neil A Walker 3 Comments

Programme and project managers (PPMs) encounter many outcomes when evaluating and making programme/project decisions. A crucial one to consider is stakeholder expectations. PPMs must understand that their programme/project decisions impact […]

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Best Practice, Communications Management, Stakeholder Management

Programme and Project Interactions

March 15, 2011by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

Interaction between people is a key element of successful programmes/projects. Interactions include communications, negotiation, decision making, conflict management (resolving issues and problems between people), leadership, relationship management (preserving the relationship […]

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Best Practice, Communications Management

Biggest Sin in Project Management

February 16, 2011by Neil A Walker 1 Comment

Project management has been around for decades. Although there have been advancements in methods, processes and tools, but project still go wrong. They go wrong for the same reasons all […]

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Best Practice, Lessons Learned, Portfolio Management, Programme Management

Business ownership and involvement – Critical

December 12, 2010by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

In an earlier blog post, I discussed the lessons learned of certain key challenges, encountered during projects and programs. Specifically getting senior management to focus on the “project endeavour” throughout […]

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