Author: Trevor K. Nelson

Most PMOs Fail Because…

        We see this a lot. It’s an interesting claim as it implies the writer has either significant experience with, or access to significant data on, not just PMOs, but PMOs *that have failed*.

Cobb’s Paradox

Cobb’s Paradox: We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail? I was never a fan of The Standish Group’s CHAOS report. Ignoring some of the more specific complaints about the methodology, definitions, audience, etc., my biggest challenge is that...

Complexity ‘Can’ Be Planned For

Just because ‘you’ learned about it today doesn’t mean it’s never been done before. In a recent post on LinkedIn re: the James Webb Space Telescope I made the comment that it had been completed through “meticulously planning how the emergent practices would be applied.” This was in part to...