What’s a good predictor of a problem project? I’m sure we all have our own ‘sniff tests’ when it comes to projects, and identifying what is likely to cause problems. But we haven’t done as much research as Alexander Budzier from the Saïd Business School – he’s looked at 22,000 across every sector! It turns … Read more
How many of your projects would you count as successful? I don’t mean successful delivery, though that is important. Hitting budget, schedule, and benefits is vital, but is it enough? Traditionally, the iron triangle has been something project managers can, more or less, control. This is where we have focussed our efforts – we can … Read more
0.5% of projects deliver to budget, on time, and with the benefits they were supposed to. Not my statistic, but from Alexander Budzier of Oxford Saïd Business School. It came from a study of more than 22,000 projects across sectors, showing 50% deliver on budget, 8% on budget and on time, and that 0.5% hitting … Read more
I have been thinking some more about the changes to the PMP exam by PMI that I wrote about last week. I’m particularly interested in the dramatic increase in focus on the wider business environment when it comes to running projects. Every project manager will have been in the position where they realise that changes … Read more
UK Regional Mayors can now borrow much more money, and actually invest in the regions they serve. On Friday, it was announced that there would be a guaranteed transfer of a portion of centrally collected tax receipts, specifically income tax and business rates. I was part of regional devolution 25 years ago when I joined … Read more
I was interested to see the changes brought in with the new PMP Exam on 9th July. Now, I’m not a PMP person myself – the UK in general leans more towards PRINCE2 – but it is a global force, so changes there are likely to appear in most other places. The PMP has three … Read more
What are you trying to achieve from using AI for everything? What value are you bringing to your role if you end up delegating everything to a computer program? I’m becoming more and more bemused at some of the choices people are making about what they want to have AI do for them, particularly LLMs. … Read more
The tension between Europe as a whole and the US has been growing a lot, as the hyperscalers are basically all American. I wrote about this risk a while ago. The problem is capacity. The commercial advantages of cloud hosting don’t go away just because they data risk has increased, they just don’t win against … Read more
This is the second article about the Digital Infrastructure North conference. The first DIN article is linked here. The second part of the day was about data centres. The speaker from the company that sells very expensive equipment to put into data centres thought it was very important that we built more data centres. Maps … Read more
I attended an interesting event last week, which was a little outside of my normal stomping grounds. Digital Infrastructure North 26 was about, er, digital infrastructure. In the north. It was a definite shift away from my usual startup and business development sessions. It re-activated some old pathways in my brain, and I want to … Read more
