6R Blogs
Practice Built By Habits
"Habits building is the key to long-lasting behaviour change" - James Clear Sounds simple enough, right? But I urge you to reread it, slowly, let the words sink in. Goals are helpful to set...
What Type of Internal Project Expertise Do You Have? (Self-knowledge is a gift)
Your own internal expertise, the complexity and maturity of your systems, and your business culture and decision-making processes, will to a great extent drive what’s possible in successful...
3 Reasons Why You Must Choose Your System and Implementation Partners
You must choose your own systems (and implementation partners) Choosing a system can be for the long haul, or it can be a steppingstone, knowing that you need to level up to be ready for...
Why is accountability so hard?
WHY WE NEED IT IN PROJECT TEAMS AND SOME TIPS TO BETTER FOSTER IT Sticking to lots of small deadlines is at the very core of delivering projects on time. One of the things that we know is that...
10 Things we know about Projects and People learned 10 years
Time is a relative experience. A week can feel like a day when a lot happens, or it can drag when things seem to be going badly. Over the last 10 years, we've examined success and failure and...
Evaluating and Selecting the Best ERP System
No one wants to do an ERP implementation. It’s a whole lotta pain and a whole lotta work for something that is often not a lot of customer facing joy. In fact, we have seen clients procrastinate...
Communication in Projects
This week has been a big milestone in the transition back to on-site work for us. For the first time in over a year, I spent two days with a client and a vendor on-site working through...
Hosting with purpose; 10 tips for your meeting
Meetings are rarely in person these days and they are one of the things that I miss most about face to face work with a group. A whole project team in the same room has an energy and life of its...
Planning, Checklists and Re-planning for 2021
Way back in January 2020, we wrote about re-planning through projects (click here for that post on 'Planning and Re-planning'). I shared my experience hiking the Kokoda Track. Of how changes come...