Why Culture Is the Most Dangerous Risk in Government Projects
When reviewing the post-mortems of government project failure across the globe, some common themes always emerge. But culture…
Elon Musk, DOGE, and How Public Sector Transformation Fails Before It Starts
Last week, we covered how Elon Musks’s DOGE public service cuts aren’t just too aggressive – they’re downright…
Culture Starts at the Top: Lessons on Toxic Leadership in the Workplace
TL;DR: Employees will behave how senior leaders show them to behave, not what they say. I don’t know…
When Is a Budget Not a Budget? Hidden Red Flags in Project Dashboards
TL;DR: We can’t just look at the overall metrics – we have to look at the relationships between…
When Process Maps Lie: The Danger of Assumed Understanding
TL;DR: Just because someone says it’s true, doesn’t make it fact. A nice “everyday” kind of project today,…
Systems Versus Processes (And Other Wars)
TL;DR: Applications serve processes – not the other way around. I think by now we should finally be…
The Problem With Intuitive Metrics
Maybe I’m the only one who’s noticed this, but it seems to me that lots of politicians like…
When “Success” Doesn’t Travel: The Software That Couldn’t Leave HQ
Remember that whole, “A million monkeys on a million typewriters would eventually produce Shakespeare?” Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?…
How Dashboards Can Mislead Public Sector Projects
Dashboards are one of the most common tools for tracking government project performance — designed to offer a…
Who Needs a Plan? A $100M Project That Skipped the Basics
There’s an old project management expression: “Fail to plan, plan to fail.” In other words, you need to…