Risk Management: You can’t manage a secret

Risk Management: You can’t manage a secret

by | Oct 19, 2016 | Blog

You Can’t Manage a Secret – Risk Management in Construction Projects is No Exception We often think of risk management as primarily a technical project management discipline, but the last decade of research from the Construction Industry Institute (CII) paints a very...
Better Projects through Team Alignment

Better Projects through Team Alignment

by | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog

Achieving better projects through team alignment. What is Team Alignment? Managing projects is challenging. My first hand experience has been that the most challenging aspects of project management are more behavioral than quantitative. Proper team alignment, starting...

How to align O&M Teams and Project Teams

by | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog

When it comes to mixing O&M teams and capital project teams how can you promote goal alignment and performance focus? In industrial facilities, small capital projects (under $10M) are largely undertaken to address compliance requirements (health, safety or...

10 Commandments of Front End Planning

by | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog

What is the leading cause of capital project cost & schedule overruns? The undisputed answer the world over is poor scope definition.  Check out this infographic detailing the 10 commandments of front end planning based on CII’s implementation resource,...

Better Front End Planning = Better Projects

by | Jul 23, 2015 | Blog

At a high level, we know that projects are very dynamic – especially in front end planning.  Critical issues and decisions arise throughout a project’s life-cycle.  However, it is much easier to influence a project’s outcome during front end planning when expenditure...