Alan Ferguson to speak at PMOS in Berlin
This year’s European PMO Symposium is taking place in Berlin on 26 & 27 June 2012. As an added attraction Alan Ferguson will be delivering a pre-workshop event entitled ‘Integrating Practices for...
View ArticleNot Another Method!
Recently, I asked a colleague to delivery a Senior Management Briefing on MoV & MoP for a client in Scotland, while I was basking on a Baltic beach. There was a great deal of interest in many of...
View ArticleAre Project Managers Soft?
Last night I went to an APM East of England Meeting in Norwich. Peter Parkes was talking about stress and resilience. I quickly go over my disappointment that it was not a material sciences lecture...
View ArticleCollaborative Working Masterclass at APMG Showcase
It was my pleasure to present with Alan Ferguson, the managing director of AFA, at the APMG showcase event in London. Our Masterclass was on collaborative working, an area I have been involved in for...
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Integrated Change Delivery – the Big Picture
Integrated Change Delivery pulls together the practices for delivering change and repackages them in language that is relevant to the client’s current culture. As the client achieves more repeatable...
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Unified Service & Change
As soon as I finished writing about Integrated Change Delivery I knew I had left out a key component. I’ve now filled in the gap. I discussed my ideas with a colleague who has been developing...
View ArticleIntegrated Change Delivery
We had a very interesting day on Tuesday during delivery in Norwich of AFA’s new seminar - Integrated Change Delivery. An enthusiastic group of public & private sector delegates worked with Alan...
View ArticleScaling Down MSP
On a recent trip to Ottawa, to cement our new partnership with SOMOS Consulting, I was discussing scaling down MSP with some clients. They wondered why there was not a principle equivalent to “Tailor...
View ArticleJust one Portfolio?
Who would have thought a lecture on the APM Body of Knowledge 6th Edition would be such fun! I had a great time in Norwich yesterday evening with the APM East of England Branch discussing the new 6...
View ArticleAssurance with Even More Attitude
The BBC has just cancelled the £100 Digital Media Initiative which has been running since 2008. An independent review has been launched to find out what went wrong and what lessons can be learned. I...
View ArticlePessimistic Project Direction
Assurance, with or without attitude, seems to be a topical subject these days. The Major Projects Authority has just released its annual report...
View ArticleSimplifying Processes & Cycles
I prefer to blog solutions rather than problems but today and going to look at something that is halfway between the two. Normally I only write a blog once I’ve put together a few thoughts, shared them...
View ArticleThe Cost of Programme Management
There is an interesting discussion on the cost of programme management here...
View ArticleManage or Engage Stakeholders?
Do you manage you stakeholders or do they manage you? This discussion on Stakeholder Engagement got me thinking. Stakeholder Management in PMI PMBOK 5-th Edition 2013, ISO 21500:2012 and PRINCE2:2009...
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The Agile Snowflake
I’ve just become approved as Agile Project Management trainer. I’m new to Agile…… as an approved trainer I’ve only been running Agile projects for 20 years. Dipping into the Agile Project Management...
View ArticleSimple Reporting
A LinkedIn Discussion is getting rather heavy on reporting to a client. I posted this simple advice: As always my motto is keep it simple: Firstly have you an agreed delegated authority or tolerance...
View ArticleRules Rules Rules
And another discussion in the IPMA Linkedin Group is getting tied up in obeying rules: I commented: “Rules exist to warn you to be careful when you break them” and when the conversation went on Rules...
View ArticleI am a changemaker: Change delivery gets personal
I went to a talk on the future of the project management profession at the Norfolk Branch of APM earlier this week. It turned out to be an inspiring session. The speaker was Paul Major – he is truly...
View ArticleStakeholder Engagement in my Smallest Programme
Stakeholder engagement can become an impersonal empire being run by PR professionals. Here is a rather lighter example of effective engagement with some interesting stakeholders. I talk about my...
View ArticleStamp Collecting or Letter Writing?
Do you collect stamps? Or do you write letters that people really enjoy reading? I’m not a philatelist, nor am I arguing that we should abandon emails and go back to beautifully crafted, but...
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