Tag: Lessons Learned

  • Guillotine Management: Catastrophic Lessons Learned from the French Revolution

    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.

  • A PM whodunnit: The mysterious death of Earned Value…

    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…