This podcast is a special interview with Stephen Townsend, Director of Network Programs at the Project Management Institute (PMI). In the interview we discussed the recently published book 'Integrating Program Management and Systems Engineering: Methods, Tools and Organizational Systems for Improving Performance'. The book is a joint effort between PMI... read more →
Oct
17
Sep
26
In this installment of the short series looking at the different complexity influences on and from project virtual teams. Here I am considering method and scope complexity and uncertainty, how these factors impact complex projects and how project virtual teams both contribute to the overall complexity and compound the challenges.... read more →
Aug
22
This post is a continuation in the series on different forms of complexity in a project environment, we have covered structural complexity and social complexity in earlier articles and now, in this article, we are exploring goal complexity and its influence on project delivery. Goal complexity contributes substantially to the... read more →
Aug
08
This post follows on from an earlier one on structural complexity in project virtual teams and forms part of a short series on the subject. In the world of complex projects and complex working environment the impact of social complexity is one that needs to be carefully considered and incorporated... read more →
Jul
24
I am absolutely delighted to let you know that Ulfire will be starting to deliver the Responding to Organisational Complexity course developed by the International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM) in Perth from November this year. The course comprises three modules: Module one is a three day exploration of... read more →
Jun
06
In the area of complex projects, which are generally considered to have some or all of the characteristics of structural complexity, social complexity or uncertainty complexity. Each of these three characteristics have a different impact and drive the complexity in a different way. The more of any of these characteristics... read more →
Apr
25
So a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to catch up with Deb Hein, the CEO of the International Centre for Complex Project Management. I sat with Deb for an interview on ICCPM as an organisation, how she sees the world of complex project management and dealing with organisational... read more →
Apr
11
While complex projects are becoming a more recognized part of the language of project management, it seems to me that, where once only a few projects were called complex, now virtually every project undertaken is described by someone as complex. I hear it in home building, where someone will describe... read more →
Mar
21
In the simplest of forms of human communications, two individuals with similar cultural and demographic views and values, who speak the same language and have similar levels of communication skills would talk face to face, discussing and agreeing courses of action and ensuring in the process that both parties fully... read more →
Mar
07
Everyone working in any form of project leadership role will receive dozens through to hundreds of emails daily. Some of these will be relatively anonymous distributions of project statistics, broadcast to large sections of the project team, but many will be direct person-to-person notes covering anything from simple status updates... read more →