by Paul Turner | Oct 3, 2023 | CSU
Nine out of 10 capital projects are late and over-budget (Bent Flyvbjerg, How Big Things Get Done). This benchmark is pretty low in any industry, and the construction industry has lots of room for improvement. Yet the construction industry has not improved in the last...
by Paul Turner | Oct 3, 2023 | CSU
Capital projects are by definition finite games – they have a defined start, a defined middle, and a defined end. This creates a problem though, because finite games typically have a winner and a loser. So how can you have successful project collaboration when someone...
by Paul Turner | Oct 3, 2023 | CSU
A Moloch Trap is a situation where an individual or group is compelled to make a particular short-term decision to protect their own self interest, despite being aware of the potential impacts of their decision on the bigger picture. This isn’t anyone’s fault, I’ll...
by Paul Turner | Sep 23, 2023 | CSU
The key to managing commissioning is excellent process design and control. The problem is – lots of projects are missing the project management processes to manage commissioning and have limited ability to control the processes they are using. This may be because...
by Paul Turner | Sep 20, 2023 | CSU
If you manage projects and need to understand the project management steps to manage commissioning, then this is for you. I’m willing to bet this is how your projects unfold: Nobody pays too much attention to commissioning during design and construction phases –...
by Paul Turner | Sep 15, 2023 | CSU
Project Managers have frameworks to start capital projects – a framework for project charters, frameworks for cost and schedule estimates, frameworks for risk analysis, etc. But too often Project Managers are missing the project management frameworks to finish...
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