Regular analyses on the blind spots that make projects drift. Every article also published in French.
The decision log is the one artefact of a steering committee that protects the project manager six months later. Yet it is often reduced to a vague extract of the minutes — here is how to maintain it seriously.
The Work Breakdown Structure conditions the readability of the entire schedule. A miscalibrated decomposition either fabricates unmanageable tasks or drowns the project manager in micro-management.
Task dependencies are the connective tissue of an MS Project schedule. Set well, they make the critical path legible ; set poorly, they quietly propagate slippage everywhere.
The team's weekly review is often where the project manager loses control — or regains it. Here is the format that outlived three leadership transitions in the same industrial programme.
Assigning a resource to a task looks trivial until the first over-allocation conflict. Understanding the duration–work–units triangle prevents 80 % of those conflicts.