Articles from two decades of experience, that will make your life as a project manager just that little bit easier!

Project management can make the difference between an idea that keeps circling in conversations and one that actually becomes real. But it should not mean creating endless documents, adding meetings or forcing every piece of work into the same rigid process. Good project management brings enough structure to help people understand what needs to happen, who is responsible and what might prevent progress. Whether you’re trying to bring a delayed project back under control, organise a new initiative or work out what kind of support your business needs, a little project management help goes a long way! This page includes practical project management help based on more than two decades of working across complex programmes, technology delivery, business change and product launches. It brings together guidance for people managing projects as well as founders, small business owners, charities and growing teams who may not think of their work as a project.

You will find support for the situations that make delivery difficult: projects that have stalled, plans that no longer reflect reality, competing priorities, unclear ownership, hidden dependencies and teams trying to achieve too much at once. There is guidance on planning business launches, taking over work someone else started, introducing automation and deciding when additional project support would be more effective than hiring another permanent employee. Some articles share techniques that you can apply yourself. Others explain how contract, temporary or fractional project management help can provide focused support when a business needs delivery leadership but not another full-time role. There are resources for small businesses, start-ups, scale-ups, non-profits and organisations delivering technology or digital change.

Everything here is grounded in the realities of getting work delivered through people. The aim is not to make project management more complicated. It is to help you see what is happening, make better decisions and create a credible path forward. Start with the area that reflects your current challenge, or explore the learned experiences for honest lessons from a long and sometimes rocky career in projects.

Explore my practical project management guidance, learned experiences and delivery approach.