Posted by Kevin Brady on Tue 13th June 2006 at 05:54 PM, Filed in Project Management

During the early part of my Project /Programme Management career I decided it was important to get some programme /project auditing experience. I have to tell you that trying to find a company actually wanting to independently check on the status of its projects /programmes of work was like trying to find someone to volunteer for open heart surgery. Nevertheless, I believed then as I do now, that to become a great project /programme manager one needs to donate at least 2 working weeks to auditing each year. How on earth can one mentor managers, lead with gravitas, define an organisations IT strategy if you have not spent time looking into other peoples work and seeing for oneself what works and what plainly does not ?

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Tue 13th June 2006 at 05:47 PM, Filed in Project /Programme Failures

Get Sacking – Path to Project Success

Friends know at their cost, not to get me on the subject of IT project failures when dinning out. My passion for this subject knows no bounds, having spent the best part of 20 years studying “The Madness” i.e. project failure rates of between 70% and 91% with projects cancellation rates of approximately 30% (Standish Group Report).

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