My last post concerned the second principle of the Basic Collaboration Level of the Project Execution Maturity Model, Functional Alignment. This post introduces the third principle, Priority Control. Managing priorities is one of your most powerful weapons to eliminate multitasking. But even with “formal” priorities, there’s often significant disagreement amongst team members about what is the […]

My last post concerned the first principle of the Basic Collaboration Level of the Project Execution Maturity Model, Collaborative Execution. This post introduces the second principle, Functional Goals Alignment. Functional goals alignment Many project teams consist of multiple disciplines from a variety of sources: technical experts, operations experts, subcontractors, supply chain management, financial controllers, schedulers, etc.

My last post concerned the first principle of the Basic Collaboration Level of the Project Execution Maturity Model, Collaborative Execution. This post introduces the second principle, Functional Goals Alignment. Functional goals alignment Many project teams consist of multiple disciplines from a variety of sources: technical experts, operations experts, subcontractors, supply chain management, financial controllers, schedulers, etc.

  Is your team having a hard time agreeing on the project or work status? Are you discovering workflow problems late in the game? Finding it difficult to identify what are the most important issues to focus on? What about communication among team members? This video explains why and how visualizing your project or workflow helps

I recently gave an introduction to the Execution Maturity Model in this blog post. This week, I will introduce the first principle of the basic level of the Execution Maturity, Collaborative Execution. Basic Collaboration The objective of the Basic Collaboration level of the project execution maturity model is to increase task velocity. In order to achieve

Project success: everyone wants it, yet completely successful projects are rare. Why? Everyone has an opinion, but what if that opinion is baseless? Organizations will spend millions on improving processes that will make no difference, or worse, harm the performance. My firm commissioned an independent research study to identify what is really making a difference in

Is your project team set to win? Are they spending too much time in conflict resolution? Is taking too long to make decisions? Few would argue against the value of goal directed work. But in most projects, the only person on the team with the single objective of completing the project is the project manager. The

Are you still working on improving your project management capabilities? Wondering why that skills training and new software doesn’t make the difference you thought it would? What can you do that makes a difference between project success and failure? There is too much groupthink in the project management improvement industry. The last big breakthrough that won