Category: Program management
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Guillotine Management: Catastrophic Lessons Learned from the French Revolution
The French Revolution is often remembered through dramatic imagery: crowds storming the Bastille, revolutionary tribunals, and the ominous fall of the guillotine. Yet beneath the spectacle lies one of history’s most profound case studies in failed governance, uncontrolled change, and catastrophic decision making.
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Project managers, are you checking your critical success factors?
We do not lack lists of Critical Success Factors. What we lack is evidence that we are actively managing them. The fundamentals identified more than two decades ago still hold — leadership, capability, alignment, clarity, and execution. But their weighting has shifted. Change management, stakeholder alignment, and data readiness now exert far greater influence on…
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A PM whodunnit: The mysterious death of Earned Value…
The Case Background In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Earned Value Management (EVM) occupied a central place in professional project management. It was taught, standardised, examined, and applied across defence, infrastructure, engineering, and large IT programmes. Earned Value was not a fringe technique; it was a mainstream mechanism for answering the most fundamental project…
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Heroes of project management 🦸♂️💪🥇
This article hopes to establish project managers throughout history as being vital to the success of the greatest human endeavours, project management best practice is project management best practice after all, whether building pyramids in the desert, or rebuilding a war-ravaged continent and preventing mass starvation.
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V is for Volunteering
One of the criticisms of modern professional discourse is that there are too many opinions — including this one. Lists abound: “10 things to do.” “10 things not to do.” “10 things you thought were true but aren’t.” It’s endless advice in search of a verb. The only advice that really matters, though, is simple:…
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