by Leonie McCarthy | Apr 27, 2023 | Project Management
We’ve just finished a project retrospective for a website launch. One of the strong themes of the team discussion was the clarity of roles. Getting the roles, responsibilities and relationships right in a project can make a world of difference for the team that...
by Leonie McCarthy | Feb 3, 2023 | Project Management
Pressure is mounting on CIOs and business leaders as they attempt to guide their companies toward greater efficiency and success. Reducing costs and transforming IT infrastructure are primary objectives but, if the current estimates are any indication, the task will...
by Leonie McCarthy | May 31, 2022 | Project Management
Every Friday, I check in; I send my trainer a screenshot of my running for the week and a photograph of the scales (weigh-in a la Biggest Loser). This is an accountability practice born out of way too much lockdown eating and drinking that had me veer off the rails in...
by Leonie McCarthy | Nov 9, 2021 | Project Management
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 project delivery. Depending on where your business sits in the project...
by Leonie McCarthy | Jul 28, 2021 | Project Management
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 strived to do all we can to learn as much as possible from both. We...
by Leonie McCarthy | Nov 25, 2020 | Project Management
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 out of left-field, and the need to adapt plans as...