PMO & Governance
What a PMO is actually for
Most PMOs are judged on reporting. Here is the narrower set of jobs a PMO has to do before reporting means anything.
Insights
Notes from the practice.
What we have learned running portfolios, standing up PMOs and taking organizations through certification. Written by the people who did the work.
Project & Program Management
Assess before you plan: why the first two weeks decide the programme
The case for a structured assessment phase, and what a useful assessment report contains.
Project & Program Management
Schedule overruns are a symptom. Here is the disease.
Cost and schedule overruns usually trace to decisions made before execution started. How to find them.
PMO & Governance
Measuring project management maturity without theatre
Using PMBOK and CMMI-Dev together to produce a maturity baseline your leadership will accept.
PMO & Governance
Standing up a PMO for a multi-year national programme
What changes when the programme is nation-scale, multi-vendor and politically visible.
PMO & Governance
Onsite, offshore, or both: structuring a PMO team
How to split PMO work across locations without losing proximity to the decision.
Agile & Digital Transformation
Hybrid Agile for regulated product engineering
Where Agile helps in healthcare product development, and where traditional planning still earns its place.
Agile & Digital Transformation
Kanban for support teams that keep missing SLAs
Treating support as flow, and making SLA performance visible to the customer.
Project & Program Management
Recovering a release that is six months late
Sequencing scope evaluation, defect clearance and quality gates when the date has already gone.
Agile & Digital Transformation
Customer demos as risk management
Regular demos reduce requirements uncertainty faster than another round of specification.
AI Adoption & Governance
AI adoption without an AI strategy deck
Practical first steps for organizations expected to adopt AI this year.
AI Adoption & Governance
Governing AI projects under ISO 42001
What the standard asks for, and how to build governance that does not stall delivery.
Risk Management
Enterprise risk management that survives contact with the business
Implementing an ERM framework people actually use, rather than a register nobody reads.
Cyber Security & Privacy
ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 together
Running information security and privacy management as one system instead of two projects.
Cyber Security & Privacy
HIPAA compliance for analytics companies handling health data
Scope, controls and evidence for organizations processing PHI without treating patients.
Quality & Standards
ISO 13485 in practice: process and audit in medical devices
Where medical device quality systems tend to fail internal audit, and how to prepare.
Quality & Standards
Reaching CMMI Level 3 without a paper exercise
Preparing for SCAMPI appraisal in a way that leaves working practice behind.
Quality & Standards
PCMM for HR: capability maturity applied to people practices
What changes when you treat HR processes with the same maturity discipline as engineering.
Quality & Standards
Lean Six Sigma in manufacturing: choosing the right first project
Project selection determines whether a Lean Six Sigma programme survives its first year.
Capability & Training
Certification is not the outcome. Capability is.
Why training, coaching and mentoring have to outlast the audit for the investment to pay.