Insights on Public Sector Project Risk

Ideas, analysis, and expert takes on public sector project risk.

Why Public Sector Projects Fail — and What You Can Learn From It.

Public sector projects fail for the same reasons over and over again — misaligned leadership, unchecked assumptions, and a failure to see the real risks in time.

This page brings together insights from my years of oversight, audits, coaching, and front-line experience — to help you better understand the dynamics behind success and failure in public sector project risk. You’ll find original articles, podcast interviews, and guest features — all focused on what it really takes to deliver under pressure.

Two professionals in a heated argument across a boardroom table while colleagues look on uncomfortably, illustrating toxic leadership in the public sector and its impact on team dynamics.

How Toxic Leadership Shapes Public Sector Culture and Failure

In toxic leadership cultures — especially in the public sector — employees will behave how senior leaders show…

A contractor holds out his hand while a suited professional shows empty pockets, representing project dashboard red flags and hidden financial risks in project delivery.

The Dashboard Red Flags That Turn Budgets into Illusions

Dashboards are funny things (as we’ve talked about before). On the one hand, they can make an incredibly…

Office professionals using tin cans and string to communicate across a meeting table, illustrating process mapping failures and breakdowns in communication.

How Assumptions in Process Mapping Derail Project Delivery

A nice “everyday” kind of project today, one that we can probably all relate to on some level….

People playing tug of war over labeled process boxes, symbolizing conflict in government system implementation failures.

Government System Implementation Failures: When Processes Get Overrun

I think by now we should finally be at the point where we all know that software doesn’t…

A distorted ruler with scattered numbers, representing confusion in government performance measurement problems.

The Hidden Cost of Government Performance Measurement Problems

Maybe I’m the only one who’s noticed this, but it seems to me that lots of politicians like…

A laptop wired to tin cans, representing outdated or ineffective design in government software usability failure.

Government Software Usability Failure: The System That Couldn’t Leave HQ

Remember that whole, “A million monkeys on a million typewriters would eventually produce Shakespeare?” Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?…

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