Project Managers and Project Controls Professionals sometimes have an unappreciated job. Battling inefficiencies, lack of transparency and sometimes near-anarchy conditions, we burn the midnight oil establishing processes to increase transparency, accountability and predictability — all to make sure that our organizations have the necessary information to make informed decisions. As with politics where some say “a trillion … Continue reading The Compounding Effect of Project Management →

- How many project controls engineers does it take to determine the progress of a work activity? - Nine. One to determine the number, and eight to talk about how much better they would have done it…. Measuring progress is one of the challenging areas of Project Management and since it is challenging it is … Continue reading How Will You Measure Project Progress? →

Your project is approved, and you are happy as a clam. A year later your project is behind schedule, way over budget, and you wonder why. Did you not have sufficient project controls procedures in place? A frequently overlooked root-cause of project failure is a flawed project selection methodology. Many companies rely on immature and incomplete selection methods and … Continue reading Starting the Wrong Projects →