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Business change programme director with over 25 years of change management experience in IT and business transformation. Wealth of experience in international projects, offshoring, and IT product development. Considerable experience in financial services - private and retail banking, etc...

Specialist in project and programme management, standards, processes, tooling and best practices. Professional project management qualification.

Highly experienced in packaging and delivery of IT software products.

Freelance author on change and project management for over 15 years.

Live in Salisbury in the UK and gave up running around the planet like an idiot a year or so ago. (Still) trying to improve my golf, (still) trying to make sense of projects and change. Drive an Audi cabriolet and love it.

My passion is ...

doing the simple things right

I know too much about ...

why people and businesses fail

My childhood ambition ...

to play in the England front row

Why I write ...

because I enjoy it and it helps me to clarify my thoughts

My first job ...

in an insurance office

My inspiration ...

the moment it all comes together

Business > Project Management How to avoid project failure

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Take 100 projects run by 100 different project managers and you will find at least 100 different ways to fail. The basics come up time and time again as some sort of endless loop from Project Management 101 - have a plan, communicate better, resource properly, etc..... Here's a thought - have a look at a few past projects and see what happened there. Whether they were successes or failures doesn't matter, have a good look and do or adapt the good things while avoiding the bad. Simple really, it used to be called post-project review but each method has its own name. At best it contributes g...

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