A nice chat
August 10, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsIt was a good meeting. The entire agenda completed, debates expanded and closed, conclusions come to and decisions made. Along the way, someone was taking notes and some of those... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
The phase shift
August 9, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsWhat’s missed is that every time you move a thing from one phase to the next, there’s a transition. And it can be smooth or lumping-stumping interminable and all things... Read more
Fess up
August 8, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsLet’s just say that you made the judgement call and it didn’t work out. That’s the way of judgement calls, you judge and the chips fall. Sometimes though, the judgement... Read more
Fat assumptions
August 7, 2025 12:17 am 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
The through-line
August 6, 2025 12:17 am 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