Projects do run into difficulties from time-to-time, that’s the nature of projects and you shouldn’t be surprised. Indeed, as Elmar Kutsch, Mark Hall and Neil Turner illustrate in their great new book Project Resilience, you may not be able to predict a crisis but you can very likely predict how people will respond.
It is within your control to ensure any document going out from the Government side of the process is well-structured and internally consistent. Insist on it. It is regrettably common to see a specification document which has been prepared by lumping together the inputs from a variety of subject matter experts without any technical challenge or editorial input.
There are definitely ways of doing things right (and wrong) in major projects. And communication during the bid process is very much one of those ways. Louise Hart offers a bullet-proof process for communicating the results in her new book Procuring Successful Mega-Projects.
Despite its very general philosophy, there are some cases where Monte Carlo does not work. This can be the case when the sampling process does not adequately look into the feature which the output requires. Two examples come to mind.
David Hillson makes some very sensible observations in his article in the November issue of PM World Journal: One Size …
I am delighted to say that the virtual journal, PMWorld is back after a month or two’s absence while the …
I am delighted to be able to tell you that David Hillson, a.k.a The Risk Doctor was awarded the PMI …
Following the APM Project Management Conference 2010 Delivering the Future in Partnership, the APM Project Management Conference 2011 aims to …
David Hillson (www.risk-doctor.com) will be presenting at the “Making Risk Work” Summit, hosted by Penny Pullan and Ruth Murray-Webster in the …
The trouble with definitions in the world of project management (and the PMBOK definitions are no exception) is what do …
