Particularly in the case of capital projects, much of the critical decision-making occurs at the front end, when teams have the greatest opportunity to maximize value by shaping the opportunity properly. However, despite deploying stage-gated project management processes and Front-End Loading (FEL) activities for many years, organizations continue to struggle to deliver projects that are on time, on budget, and …
Short Interval Control: Magic You Can Use Immediately to Stay on Schedule
Leading Projects does a lot of work for clients in a practice area we call “Strategic Interventions,” which usually involves helping project teams recover from schedule slippage — always incredibly difficult. So, how can you avoid slippage in the first place? During any stage of a major project, one of our favorite tools to stay on schedule is “Short Interval …
Don’t Fall Behind
This post was written by Greg Sills, President of Leading Projects, and Mark Robicheaux, Senior Advisor. Leading Projects does a lot of work for clients in a practice area we call “Strategic Interventions” — which usually involves helping project teams recover schedule slippage — always incredibly difficult. Most project delivery systems are focused on “readiness” for the Execute stage. But …