Practical, occasionally self-deprecating thoughts on running projects the simple, low-maintenance way. New posts as I write them.
Every project feels unique to the people inside it — and structurally almost none are. The cover-songs truth about projects, the outside view and reference-class forecasting, and why that's good news for anyone with a framework.
Read the post →A subject-matter expert tells you what to build; an operations manager will run it beautifully once it exists. Turning the ambition into a finished result is a profession of its own — the specific value a project manager brings that neither can, and how SSLM makes it light enough to use.
Read the post →Why the people side belongs in the plan from day one — a confession about the Friday I felt like a hero and the Wednesday nobody was using the system, with a nod to Kerrie Smit's Agencia Change model.
Read the post →More to come — on RAID logs, PMOs, benefits, and the quiet art of not over-engineering things.