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Expert insights on project & programme management, business transformation, and AI. Read practical advice from 15+ years of consulting and delivery experience
Project Management
Posts about Project Management, and Project and Programme planning and delivery.


5 Tips for using AI to generate Cost Benefit Analysis for Projects
Using AI, Project Managers and Leaders can create more compelling project Cost Benefit data.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 121 min read


5 Moves for Proactive Project Delivery
As a project delivery and turnaround specialist, I've learned that the difference between project success and failure isn't about how fast you can put out fires. It's about preventing them from starting in the first place.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 111 min read


6 Questions COOs and Leaders ask before Signing off a Project
Approving a project is more than just a formality, it's your single biggest opportunity to protect strategy, budget, and delivery capacity.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 101 min read


The AI for Project Management Market is Exploding
The AI for project management market is predicted to hit $14.45 billion by 2034. Organisations betting on AI for scheduling, risk management, governance, and admin are seeing measurable gains in cost control, agility and oversight.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 81 min read


Project Deadlines are Slipping, Scope is Drifting
Because real alignment isn't created in a single workshop. It's built in the messy, daily details of delivery, and even the best leaders can struggle to maintain alignment once the real work begins.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 51 min read


4 Roles Strategic Leaders should never be doing on a Project
You're doing two jobs, and we know how that works out. Strategic leaders need to be able to steer the ship, not row it.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 31 min read


5 Warning Signs your Project is losing Alignment
What's more expensive than a delayed project? A team that's working hard, but going in different directions.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 11 min read


Navigating Uncertainty in AI Projects
Like any technology, AI comes with it's own set of risks, from emergence of unexpected capabilities, hallucinations, creative interpretations to unexpected real-world behaviours.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 311 min read


Goodbye PMO and hello Value Management Office?
There's a growing need to track what truly moves the needle for businesses, not just on-time delivery but measurable ROI, customer impact and strategic alignment.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 292 min read


3 Key Exec Questions for Projects
There are 3 key questions every exec should ask at weekly project check-ins. You're getting status updates, you hear what's 'green', but you feel the project is drifting. To shift from status to clarity, you need a different conversation.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 291 min read


The COO Test - Is your Project built to Deliver?
Project execution is not just about completing tasks, but about completing them in the most productive way possible.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 281 min read


9 AI Project Challenges and How to Solve Them
Navigating AI Adoption: What's your biggest challenge and how do you solve it? Trying to harness AI can feel overwhelming. It's complicated and it's not SaaS, there are key challenges that need to be faced. From decision paralysis and a lack of skills to trying to grapple with infrastructure, ethics, data, security and change management.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 271 min read


10 Methods for Delivering Successful AI Projects
If you're about to start leading AI transformation, or AI projects, or even sponsoring AI projects, then this is great tick list to get you started.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 271 min read


Solving Project Resource Conflicts
Project resource wars aren't just a theoretical issue, they're a real challenge for project managers and teams.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 261 min read


Stop Project firefighting
The cost of not re-setting delivery is working hard on the wrong things. It's losing trust before you've even noticed it's gone. It's delay disguised as busy. It's more chaos and less progress, every week.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 261 min read


Adopting a Project Portfolio Approach
A project portfolio approach ensures every effort serves your wider strategy. It balances risk and value across all initiatives and ensures every project, programme and team is working towards a unified goal.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 251 min read


Using the Outsider Advantage
Breakthroughs come from integration: Studies of interdisciplinary AI teams found that diverse backgrounds drive higher adoption and more effective outcomes than siloed experts
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 212 min read


Wagile Project Management isn't going Anywhere
The reality is that the rigid application of either Agile or Waterfall rarely fits the messy reality of complex delivery.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 201 min read


If you think you're delivering a Tech only Project, you're wrong
Tech goes live. Nothing changes. Why? The impact? Tech goes live but the business doesn't change. Adoption is low. Outcomes are diluted...
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 201 min read


7 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞.....𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐭.
Project failure doesn't happen overnight. But slowly, deadlines slip, teams disengage and momentum evaporates. 7 warning signs to watch out for are:
Sally-Anne Baxter
Aug 191 min read
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