Project Management and Change Articles

Ambiguity, Complexity and Uncertainty Are Not the Same Thing

Project reports often use "uncertainty" to describe three quite different problems. Learn how to tell uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity apart, and why each one needs a different response.

Project Performance: Data, Information and Judgement

A project can be green on every measure and still be heading for trouble. Here is what to monitor to understand overall project performance, and how to turn the data into sound judgement.

The PMI Mindset Explained: How PMP Expects You to Think

PMP candidates are often told they need "the PMI mindset", usually without a definition. Here is what the phrase generally means, where the rule-list version breaks down, and how the underlying judgement works on a real project.

When Collaboration Is Better Than Authority in PMP Scenarios

Collaborative options tend to do well in PMP scenarios, and most candidates compress that into a rule. The rule misses the two conditions that actually make collaboration the stronger instrument, and the situations where authority is the right one.

Predictive vs Agile vs Hybrid Project Management: How to Choose

Predictive, agile and hybrid are not three products to choose between. They are three answers to a single question: how much of the work can usefully be decided before it starts, and what does it cost you to be wrong?

Intended Value vs Realised Value

Intended value is what the business case predicted. Realised value is what the organisation actually gains once the output is in use. Most of the distance between them opens after handover, and more of it sits inside a project manager's reach than is usually assumed.

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