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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....

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....

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....

In today’s article, we will talk about the derivation of risks and issues log and the installment of a routine. As we are still in the vacation season, some vacation and especially sailing metaphors managed to find their way into the text. With that, I wish you fair winds and following seas while exploring the risk landscape of your next project!...

Ahoy there! It’s summertime, so why don’t we take a breather for a moment and talk about having fun? An old joke goes that no matter what assembly instructions are saying, a military engineer will make a tank out of it – by virtue of the same logic, I see a lot a project manager can learn from having fun, especially if there is some system to the fun-madness! ...

In today’s article, Monty Python together with Hermann Hesse will help us define what we realistically want to achieve with risk management tools for our project and why the planning phase of a project is nothing but sheer magic – if you look at it close enough....