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Steering Committees That Actually Make Decisions

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

Two programs can have identical plans, identical budgets, and identical teams, and one will deliver on time while the other

Transformation programs rarely die from one dramatic failure. They stall—momentum bleeds out gradually until a program that was moving at

Ask a project team if they’ve mapped their dependencies and most will point to a Gantt chart with arrows between

Ask three executive sponsors what success looks like for the same program and you’ll often get three different answers—not because

Most RAID logs die within a month of being created. Someone sets one up during program kickoff, populates it dutifully