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.. is the man with the plan. Good when it’s that simple. It is not uncommon for German project managers in particular to fall into a popular linguistic trap by confusing the English „plan“ with the German „schedule“. Yet, even in German, planning, on closer inspection, encompasses much more than just the scheduling component. According…

How the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and how redirection succeeds. For quite a few project managers, the effort to keep the project baselines in check seems about as easy as nailing a pudding to the wall. If, to make matters worse, the beautiful new solution is not accepted, good advice is…

This first step plans the successor, the template is the current job.The budgeting of projects is often given the strongest focus in the run-up to a project. No wonder, while information about WHAT and WHEN finds its way into the boardrooms only sporadically as of today, the dear money has always been part of operational…

Imagine being called into a room where the air is thick enough to cut. You walk out of your typical workday straight into a wall of lost hope. Perplexed and total inner surrender expressing faces look at you. From the part of the desperate lament you could understand, you rhyme together: Now good advice is…

… so that thinking can change direction. As beautiful as this saying is, it often undercuts its little ugly brother „thinking in circles“, or also: thinking in silos. Why silos of all things? Silos are per se something very useful, since in an abstract sense they serve to store and protect work results. In the…

The technical concept is to the solution architect what the project order is to the project manager. Why some projects falter here as well. Project managers often find themselves in situations where they have to manage a project which is not the first of its kind in this organization. As befits a good organization, there…

A large project can have many facets: many partners, much budget, many problems, many countries in focus. However, most of the large projects have one thing in common: there are many decisions to be made, the effects of which are not always fully foreseeable. The theoretical elephantAs many of my well-read visitors will know, elephants…

Efficiency relates to effectiveness like cooks to porridge – the more attention you pay to the former, the more likely you are to get the desired result from the latter. To maximize the productivity of the process down the line, it is advisable to use the available resources wisely. A very central decision here is…