Project Management

A project is a mini-series, not a soap opera (although sometimes during a project’s lifecycle it can feel like it will never end). In other words, a contained event with a beginning (initiation and planning), a middle (implementation) and end (delivery and use). A project can be defined as “a complex, non-routine, one-time effort limited […]

When producer Anna Beattie was unsuccessfully pitching the idea for The Great British Bake Off I’m sure she had little inkling of the global phenomenon it would turn into, or the resurgent appetite for home baking it would prompt. Like millions of others I’m no pâtissière, but the Bake Off has inspired my own hit-and-miss […]

As my primary school headmaster used to drum into us on an almost weekly basis, “you can please some of the people all of the time; you can please all of the people some of the time; but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” The quote may be attributed to […]

When it comes to project resourcing, McDonald’s owner and CEO Ray Kroc put it simply: “You’re only as good as the people you hire.” Or as Walt Disney said, “of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.” […]