Ron Rosenhead

I Love It When a (project) Plan Comes Together

I went out with my wife for dinner at a local restaurant. We went with some long standing friends for a quiet and relaxed evening. The service was really poor. My meal arrived first and our friends arrived around 3 minutes after mine and despite many requests from us all, my wifes meal eventually arrived around 10 minutes later. Our friends steak was sent back because it was too rare. It was a spoilt... (posted by Ron 2 years 274 days ago.)

Project Management Teams - How Are Yours Selected?

How are your project teams selected? Are they selected or do you have representatives from different parts of the business or are they simply assembled with the same old faces? Imagine a long time scale project -12 months plus the staff costs associated with this are significant. However, I see little time spent on putting the right team together to ensure effective delivery of the project. People on... (posted by Ron 2 years 310 days ago.)

Project Monitoring - More Time Spent On Business As Usual Activities Than Projects?

I spent some time recently with one of my colleagues. He was running a 3 day project management event for a client based on their in-house project management system. We came to governance (monitoring and control) of projects. My colleague mentioned something which stayed with me. He said, "Managers seem to spend more time monitoring business as usual than projects".... (posted by Ron 2 years 329 days ago.)

So, what is project management? Try project based working, it will help you

Look around any organisation – large, medium and small. You have people, professional staff engaged in projects. These can include for example: 1. service improvements 2. costs reduction 3. product development 4. staff development 5. improved sales Where someone or a team are engaged in delivering a change, then you have a clear project and need to apply project management... (posted by Ron 5 years 339 days ago.)