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The Difference Between Process Documentation and Process Adoption

A process document sitting in a shared drive, fully up to date and beautifully formatted, tells you nothing about whether […]

“We need more governance” and “governance is slowing us down” are usually complaints about the same broken system, coming from

An embedded program manager doesn’t walk into a blank room. They walk into a team that already has inside jokes,

A director at a mid-size organization calls a consulting firm for one of two reasons: something is behind schedule and

Most post-mortems produce a document that gets filed away and never looked at again, full of generic lessons like “communicate

Most steering committee meetings run for an hour, cover a status deck, and end with polite nods and no actual

Every organization has a portfolio of initiatives that’s larger than its actual delivery capacity, and almost every one of them

The titles get used almost interchangeably in casual conversation, and that’s part of the problem—organizations frequently hire a project manager

Somewhere in most organizations there’s a milestone tracker that’s actually three trackers—the official one in the PPM tool that nobody

Scope creep rarely arrives as a single dramatic decision. It arrives as a dozen individually reasonable requests—”can we also include