Adrian Dooley
I was originally a construction project manager but moved into training and consultancy 30 years ago. After a career of trying to explain the reasons why the various PPM guides use different terminology and individually cover only parts of organisational PPM, I decided to develop the Praxis Framework.
Written Articles
How sensitive are your project resources? I’m not asking if your team members shed a tear at their best friend’s wedding, I’m asking if you know which resources have the greatest effect on your project schedule. The conventional approaches to resource limited scheduling are called resource levelling and resource smoothing. The first has the objective […]
I was recently reading an essay by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. In it, he observes peoples’ inclination to assign information into discrete ‘pigeon-holes’ (my phrase not his) and calls this the ‘discontinuous mind’. His argument goes: We’d all agree that a six-foot woman is tall and a five-foot woman is not. Words like ‘tall’ […]
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