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Is a Project Manager role a thankless job?

October 13, 2012by Neil A Walker 3 Comments

I had an interesting discussion yesterday with some fellow project management practitioners. The basis of the discussion “Is a Project Manager role a thankless job?” We got the feeling that […]

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Project Management

Mission Impossible 2

July 12, 2012by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

Last year I wrote a blog post on “Impossible Projects” highlighting that “some projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do”. Once again, I was […]

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Project Failure, Project Management

Projects are risky! Expect some failures.

February 2, 2012by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

As discussed in my earlier article, some programs and projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do. They start because there is a chance of […]

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Leadership, Project Failure

Impossible Projects

October 6, 2011by Neil A Walker 3 Comments

Yesterday, we discussed that some projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do. So you’ve been nominated as project manager to deliver this impossible project. […]

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Project Management

Projects are Risky! New Endeavours, Not Business as Usual

October 5, 2011by Neil A Walker 1 Comment

Some projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do. They start because there is a chance of a high Return on Investment (ROI) to the […]

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Project Management

Project Communication Insight

March 4, 2011by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

I’ve just had a conversation with a colleague whom I worked with a few years ago. An exceptionally talented manager that, when I first got to know him, had been […]

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Communications Management

Managing Business Value by Projects

February 18, 2011by Neil A Walker 3 Comments

Many organisations are today managing their business by projects. Project management is being applied to both traditional and non-traditional projects. In 2008, I worked for a global financial services firm […]

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Business Value, Portfolio Management, Project Management, Project Portfolio Management

Negativity Can Bring Your Project Down – Fix It

January 20, 2011by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

Yesterday I wrote about the issues of negativity and how it can side track, even derail, your project. It’s not all doom and gloom, there is good news. But first […]

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Programme Management, Project Management

Negativity Can Bring Your Project Down

January 19, 2011by Neil A Walker 1 Comment

There is many a good project manager who has been defeated by the project naysayer. Good ideas that have been dashed by the project pessimist who talks the idea into […]

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Programme Management, Project Management

Regulatory Compliance and COBIT

October 8, 2009by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

As a result of the numerous financial scandals at major U.S. Fortune 100 companies in the first years of the new millennium, the U.S. introduced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) […]

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Best Practice, IT Governance, Regulatory Compliance

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