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Tag Archives: Project Success

Does proactive resolution of interdependencies expedite programme success?

February 27, 2013by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

Continuing the theme of the week, interdependencies; and yesterday’s blog post “Programme interdependencies. Domino theory!” Effective management of the project interdependencies across a programme is critical if the expected success […]

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Programme Management, Project Management Musings

Cancel projects that won’t deliver!

December 29, 2012by Neil A Walker 2 Comments

The prospect of having your project terminated, cancelled or axed (whatever sugar coated term you’d like to insert here) fills many a project manager with trepidation, maybe even a pervasive […]

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Business Value, Project Failure

Unmasking project/programme failure

November 7, 2012by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

All too frequently technology projects/programmes fail to deliver. There are any number of reasons why this occurs. It might be due to unrealistic planning, inadequate change management or lack of […]

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Programme Assurance, Project Failure, Project Success

Project success, just perception!

August 27, 2012by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

I’ve just had an interesting discussion today concerning project success. In particular around how success is perceived by the various stakeholders of the project. We all think we know what […]

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Project Failure, Project Success

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 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

Action-Oriented Teams

March 1, 2011by Neil A Walker Leave a comment

I’m a firm believer in smarter execution. What I mean is executing better to ensure the success rate of your project, programme or initiative goes up. One of the approaches […]

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Program and Project Management, Project Success

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