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Posted by Verarius | 24.11.2023
Welcome back to the Managerial zoo – a section where we look at all sorts of amazing animals that populate the reality of a project and change manager. Most of them have never walked the Earth. This is why giving them a place to live is so crucial. And where else when not in this cozy blog? Giraphant, our first fosterling, will be joined today by a fellow cloven-hooved. So, without further ado – please meet the Project Horse, whose hour strikes when it’s exactly November o’clock!...
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Posted by Verarius | 10.11.2023
Did it happen again – a project started in a very promising way, the initial milestones were passed with flying colors, and then something started going hideously wrong? Don’t lose your hope, there is a way out of this vicious cycle! This is exactly what we are going to talk about today....
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Posted by Verarius | 27.10.2023
Do you have a sneaky suspicion that sometimes behind seemingly the most innocent standard phrases in project management there lies a dark chasm of not yet verbalized issues? I decided to take the looming Halloween as an excuse to give some time and space to the black humor that hides in the shades of such phrases in the most sinister way....
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Posted by Verarius | 13.10.2023
Today we will talk about cost explosion – yet shift our focus from exponential to existential. With that, why don’t we pay closer attention to some expressions of human nature that often are the exact reason for drastic cost development? Two enchanting ladies, Mrs. Scarlet O’Hara and Madame de Pompadour, will support us in this undertaking, whereas the great Master of Suspense, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, will inspire the general atmosphere....
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Posted by Verarius | 29.09.2023
The whole discussion around the prototype we started last time fits neatly in the chain of the recent articles in this blog on cost escalation and risk management. Today we will look closer at how exactly a prototype helps you minimize the risk of cost escalation (and explosion) and what other benefits it brings you....
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Posted by Verarius | 15.09.2023
The time has come to share a little bit of what has been cooking on the back stove. For almost a year now I have had the fortune and the privilege to support one of the major Expo centers in Germany in the development and implementation of digital signage. Not only has it been hugely rewarding to see the implementation bring about physical outcomes, but it has also been a fruitful terrain for fieldwork. So let me tell you today a little bit about it....
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