Big fat assumptions
February 18, 2020 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsAll of us work with our minds topped up with big fat assumptions. The more that’s riding on your role in the project, the more assumptions you’re managing. That you... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
Things are simple
February 17, 2020 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsIn a complex world running complicated projects full of connections and interdependencies, there are plenty of things to go wrong and places for it to happen. And when it does,... Read more
Call it out
February 16, 2020 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsNot everyone holds themselves all the time to the standard they’d like to set themselves. They have lapses. You have lapses. We all have lapses. The question isn’t, Will it... Read more
Old confusions
February 15, 2020 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are lots of clever and technology driven ways to improve collaboration. All the tools to tie people to tasks, and manage projects, and share documents, and enable chat, and... Read more
Now start paddling
February 14, 2020 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsIf you’re sure you know why the project isn’t going well, fix it. Maybe it’s the brief or the relationship with the client, maybe it’s the project management or some... Read more