5 factors to help you deliver consistently great projects
The success rates for projects globally have remained static for years and not in a good way.
Stories by Colin Ellis
Are you faking or forcing agile?
Organisations with great cultures aren’t talking about going agile.
The way you deliver projects has to change: Here’s why and how
Project failure seems to have joined death and taxes as the only constants in our lives.
Project managers still not delivering? Maybe it’s time to get rid of them
Did you and your team return to work this year full of vim, vigour and good intentions? Were you silently hoping the perennial poor project management performers had made a New Year’s resolution to work to the best of their ability, be a team player and communicate openly and honestly? Has that happened?
The NBN is just another government project failure
About five minutes into ABC’s Four Corners investigation into the National Broadband Network (NBN) program on Monday evening, I realised that once again, we weren’t talking about the real issues of large government project failure.
A project stuck in the playground
Like two children fighting in the schoolyard, Brisbane City Council (BCC) and TechnologyOne are playing out a very public battle.
How to suck at project management
If you want to prove to other organisations that you really suck at project management, there are so many ways to do it.
When will the IT project madness end?
The failed Commonwealth child support system. Victoria’s corrupted ‘Ultranet’ schools online program. New Zealand Education’s Novopay fiasco. The UK National Health Service’s £117 million IT project disaster. Queensland Health’s payroll scandal. When will this insanity end?
How do you prioritise your projects?
I remember my favourite project portfolio prioritisation session vividly. I asked each executive director to provide a one-page summary and 30-second speech for each initiative that they wanted to undertake the following financial year.
To be more agile, you need mindsets to change
You need to create a culture that supports difference of opinion and a willingness to try different things, says Colin Ellis
The next big tech failure is just around the corner
The recent Census technology debacle proves that, once again, the people responsible are getting off scot-free and face little in the way of scrutiny.
Is your organisation heading for a Prexit?
Do you continue using project management as a means of delivering transformation or do you disband what you have and place your faith in something else?
The 7 traits of conscious project leaders
These are traits that are immediately recognisable in conscious project leaders. Traits that you don’t see in many other people responsible for projects. Traits that you remember and talk about.
5 questions a project manager should be able to answer
I work with a number of organisations delivering ‘conscious project leader’ programs and in my preparation, I always ask whether the project manager can instantly answer five key questions about their project, regardless of the method being used.
Are you being honest with your project managers about their performance?
When it comes to project management, there doesn't seem to be enough honesty around, says Colin Ellis.