BY David Davis ON
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
 At 11.37 am on 29 September, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Centre with a crew of five. 73 seconds into its flight, the shuttle broke apart, disintegrating over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of central Florida.
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BY Terry Rowlings ON
Thursday, 13 January 2011
 The use of the word ‘governance’ has become very fashionable.
Unfortunately, it is also very often misused to describe processes and activities that are actually management, not governance.
Whilst we all have responsibilities which contribute in some manner to good governance, IT governance is defined by the IT Governance Foundation as ‘the responsibility of the board and executive management’.
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BY Peter Wicklein ON
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
 It's hard to pick up the newspaper these days without reading about more bad news on the economy in the United States.
The latest issue involving the lack of governance and documentation in bank lending is a great example of how things can go wrong in a project.
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BY Peter Wicklein ON
Thursday, 7 October 2010
In my last post, I wrote about how lessons in our personal lives can be applied to our business lives. This time, I'd like to share some lessons I learnt while being in the army and show how these can be applied to project management and planning for contingency in projects.
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BY Peter Wicklein ON
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The lessons we learn every day in our personal lives are often directly applicable to our business lives. On a camping trip, for example, you have to prepare and make contingency to deal with accidents and incidents so that, when they do occur, they’re manageable. And so it is with projects.
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BY David Davis ON
Thursday, 1 October 2009
When you hear that an implementation had to be rolled-back, it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that all didn’t go to plan or that a disaster occurred. In actual fact, it may have been a case of good planning.
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BY Peter Wicklein ON
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Like aviation, project management is about working with risk, day in, day out. It always seems that there is never enough time to do all the things you should do and, when you have a lot to do, it’s easy to believe that only you can do it all.
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