Author: Paul

Those of you who follow us on Twitter @siamangltd will know that last week I found a couple of hours between meetings and such to book my attendance at a ‘symposium’ with a local marketing Read more…

Not tracking finances…. I have worked in companies who insist on tracking expenses, and others who don’t.  I prefer the ones who do.  Why? When you manage a project it is important to have an Read more…

Being unrealistic about timelines… Wow! This is a biggie.  Often organisational behaviour creates this too, but well estimated projects are the most successful, and are based on no more than experience and common sense. There Read more…

Not fully understanding the deadlines and the reasons behind them… This often happens in large companies, but also happens in smaller organisations.  Learned organisational behaviour creates artificial deadlines and as explained earlier, where the time Read more…

truly knowing what the project is supposed to achieve… It might seem a strange one to start with, but it catches a lot of people out. Sometimes the person requiring a project themselves doesn’t really Read more…

I was looking through some old collateral when I came across an article I wrote a while back. It’s a bit click-baity, but bear with me.  After reading it and cringing at the way I Read more…