#196 – FIXING THE PROJECT THAT’S ABOUT TO CRASH – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom-Peart-pix‘Management’, whoever they are, has finally woken up to the fact that the project is in difficulty.  It’s been in trouble for some time and attempts to fix it haven’t worked.  Somebody, somewhere, decides that Recovery is needed before the project crashes and burns.

Blinkered participants who denied all problems and reacted in anger realise that the bad tidings were not false-news.  While they bask in depression others look at fixing the problem.  If this ‘fix’ is just reorganising then, inevitably, the real problem(s) will not be addressed. Continue reading

#195 – PROJECT TRAIN WRECKS – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom-Peart-pixThe term ‘troubled project’ is an oft quoted, possibly overly-used, but well-known term that is bandied about in a manner that possibly exaggerates any difficulty on a project.

“Troubled” has been variously defined but is, essentially, variance from predetermined values and trends in terms of time, cost and scope such that the forecast for the project meeting its objectives is unlikely unless there is (immediate) intervention. Continue reading

#194 – LIFE AND PROJECT SUCCESS – WHAT EXACTLY ARE THEY? – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom-Peart-pixThere are many articles on failed projects and why they ‘fail’ but one can only define failure if we know what is meant by success.  Typically, project success is about meeting the triple constraint of completion on time, in budget and to quality.  But is that all…just surviving is success but only the fittest survive! Continue reading

#193 – THE LOW BID: WHO’S RISK? – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom-Peart-pixWe live in a competitive environment and business generates the money that makes the world go round, or at least should do.  Money is the medium of exchange for goods and services and allows society as we know it and the global economy to function.

Those who have money engage those who want money to provide them with products or services and this is done through contracts.  Contracts are awarded at a price that the person who has the money (the Client) is prepared to pay and ‘the winner’ is typically the lowest compliant bid. Continue reading

#192 – PROJECT FAILURE – THE WHAT, WHY, WHEN, HOW, WHERE, AND WHO … – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom-Peart-pixMost are familiar with an oft referenced 1970’s observation of the all-too-true life cycle of big projects.  Although written in humour it holds the main reasons for projects failing and the phases may be mapped against Kipling’s six famous questions as follows: Continue reading