by Saskia Botha | Oct 16, 2023 | Project Governance, Project Management
Beware – here be monsters! Since it is the spooky season, let me tell you a scary story: Imagine you are standing in front of a creepy mansion. It is clearly haunted. You can hear children crying and screaming – you see a face peer at you from the attic window....
by Saskia Botha | Sep 6, 2023 | Project Governance, Project Management
Five questions to ask to about any project and four bonus questions This article is not just about the definition of a project. If that is what you wanted, you could just Google that. This is more about whether this “project” is truly a project, or just another waste...
by Saskia Botha | Aug 1, 2023 | Performance Management, Project Governance, Project Management
This case study shows that, even if you seemingly do everything right, you can miss the forest for the trees. The story takes place in a large complex manufacturing facility. This plant has three manufacturing lines, each line split into five sections. Everyone of the...
by Saskia Botha | Jul 4, 2023 | Project Governance, Project Governance, Project Management, Project Management
This project was a software implementation for two divisions of a listed company. They needed to replace their current ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, as the current version was no longer going to be supported by the service provider. So why not upgrade to...
by Saskia Botha | Jun 6, 2023 | Performance Management, Project Governance, Project Governance, Project Management, Project Management
This case study does not have a happy ending. It is a story of why this project failed, and what could have been done to prevent it. The names of all involved have been omitted to protect both the innocent and the guilty. What was the aim of the project? This was a...
by Saskia Botha | May 9, 2023 | Project Governance, Project Governance, Project Management, Project Management
We have all seen it before: the project was going so well, everything was on track, green light after green light, and then… from one week to the next, seemingly without warning, the project goes from green, bypasses amber, straight into red. The reason for this is...
