On a road infrastructure programme I reviewed in 2021, the project manager had drawn £47,000 from management reserve to cover a concrete supply disruption. The risk was on the register. It had a probability, a cost estimate, and its own … Read more
I spent eight months as a project coordinator on a programme that had genuine executive support, a realistic budget, and a project manager who knew what he was doing. It still ran 14 weeks late. The reason wasn’t technical complexity … Read more
I’ve reviewed programme schedules where a planner had entered positive lag when they intended lead — the dependency type was right, the value was wrong, and the project completion date was sitting 12 days further out than the plan required. … Read more
The first time I used a Pareto chart example in a quality review was at a contract electronics manufacturer in the West Midlands — power supply assemblies, warranty returns, probably 2018 or early 2019. The quality team had been chasing eight different … Read more
Most teams get through the first three 5S methodology steps without much difficulty. Sort, Set in Order, Shine — these are physical activities. You can see the progress. You can photograph the before and after. You can show the results to management. … Read more
I’ve seen quality managers spend three days investigating a common cause variation signal — ringing suppliers, pulling batch records, convening a review — and find nothing, because there was nothing to find. The variation was random. It was doing what random variation … Read more
A cost benefit analysis in project management is supposed to be a neutral tool. Put the expected costs on one side, the expected benefits on the other, and let the numbers tell you whether an investment is worth making. The problem … Read more
I’ve sat through a few CCPM training sessions over the years, and they all have the same shape: compelling theory, impressive case studies from manufacturing plants in the 1990s, and a largely optimistic view of how organisations respond to being … Read more
Most schedulers today work in PDM without ever needing to think about the arrow diagramming method. Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject — all of them use Activity on Node logic. But this arrow diagramming method example guide covers why ADM still matters: … Read more
The difference between total float versus free float matters more in practice than most scheduling guides suggest. A contractor I worked with on a motorway maintenance programme — it was an NEC3 contract, roughly £8m, around 140 activities in the P6 schedule … Read more
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