Monthly Archives: May 2011

Issue Management 2: Eight Disciplines

In Part 1, I took up the challenge to tackle issue management in a way that tackles one reader’s dismay at issues being “incorrectly logged, escalated, allocated severity, given owners, tracked, date and time committed, and closed properly”. Now we … Continue reading

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Issue Management 1: A Matter of Discipline

I have been challenged to write about issue management by a former colleague who says that he sees so many examples of how project issues (mostly linked to large ERP projects) are “incorrectly logged, escalated, allocated severity, given owners, tracked, … Continue reading

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Top Added Value Project Management Technique

Since I run a seminar called Practical Project Management, I felt honour bound to join the group of that name on LinkedIn. Aliaa Kudmani asked: “What is the most effecient and added value technique you recommend to project management professionals?” … Continue reading

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NAO damning report on NHS NPfIT

A snappy title?  I doubt I could have fitted the full names into the title box, so: NAO: The UK’s National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament.  More here. NHS: The National Health Service – still, despite … Continue reading

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Adventurers, Heroes, Puzzlers and Couch Potatoes

In my last blog, I looked at recent research into a possible genetic basis for our differing attitudes to risk. My Personal Appetite for Risk I’m going to guess that I am the proud bearer of a 4R allele of … Continue reading

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