When a client calls and their project is running late, they’re often surprised at how we approach the fix. They’ll say things like, ‘the last consulting firm we had in here stopped the project and did a huge re-plan – they assured us that everything would be fine, they’d sort all the project management tools
Read MoreBy Stuart Corrigan, 2022. I live in the middle of nowhere, literally. It’s five miles to the nearest village, so when I pop to the shop (yes singular) I want to make sure that I maximise my visit and get everything I need. Imagine my delight then when last year an antique shop opened just
Read MoreBy Stuart Corrigan, 2022. Are you a Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner? Do you have a big career change planned, or promotion planned for next year? Here’s how to make it happen… Yes, I know, another note about New Years resolutions and taking a different path in 2023. The problem with taking a
Read MoreBy Stuart Corrigan, 2022. My friend Nigel likes to change his car more often than the average car buyer. He generally makes a change around seven to ten times per year. As he lives in Oxford and I live in Edinburgh, we rarely get the chance to see each other. We have a weird way
Read MoreBy Stuart Corrigan, Principal Consultant at Goldratt UK, 2022. Professional research has shown the concept of setting targets to be a silly idea. Daniel Pink’s research showed how target setting reduces motivation to do the job at hand. As early as 1956 Martin Ridgway was writing about the dysfunctional behaviour associated with target setting. There
Read MoreBy Stuart Corrigan, 2022. Once upon a time, I was quite badly overweight… and as comedian Kevin Bridges says, ‘I often feel that I am only one all-inclusive holiday away from that place’. However, today, I am in decent shape. After years of learning how to train and eat well I began to compete in
Read MoreA friend of mine, Gary, builds large million-pound houses. Each one is a one-off, a completely unique build taking many months to complete. Yet, irrespective of the size or shape of the house, Gary always predicts correctly – within a few weeks – when the build will be finished. One day, he noticed that one
Read MoreI was eight years old – admittedly a while ago – but I remember it like it was yesterday. My mother wanted one wall in our living room to be wallpapered with a particular paper she had her heart set on. The wallpaper was almost canvas and had printed trees standing at around five inches
Read MoreThe nature of this industry means that occasionally we work with clients to develop a Decisive Competitive Edge on their competition, as such our clients sometimes wish to remain anonymous. Our client – one of the UKs leading Financial Services’ organisations – had a problem. They made a commitment to their stakeholders, and worse –
Read MoreTo read the first part of this two-part series, click here. We discussed how many waterfall projects fail to be delivered as promised due to the planning process taking too long. Either the project deliverables are missed, or they are completed in the wrong order. In addition, there is also often no system for making
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