The Calm PM’s Approach to Project Wellbeing & Success
Projects do not have to be stressful!
It’s true! If you’re reading this then you will probably have experienced stressful and even failed projects, and at the very least are curious about how I can possibly say that project delivery can be low stress and successful. After all, there are many articles, posts, books even on why projects fail and there seems to be an acceptance that projects are difficult, risky and stressful. But this is because over the years that is how we have made them to be. I’m here to tell you and show you that this does not need to be the case. At All!
My Aim
As the Calm PM I have very straightforward goals:
- To reduce the stress of the whole team involved in delivering projects
- To increase the number of successful projects for you
My Motto
Planning, structuring and empowering project organisations to deliver SUCCESS!
My Main Theme
Keep It Appropriate & Practical (KIAP)
Let’s look back before looking forward
The purpose of companies running projects is to deliver changes to their operations in a controlled manner.
Why? Risks of adversely affecting the live operations is costly, highly embarrassing and demoralising. But changes are needed for a multitude of reasons, including:
- Need to stay current
- Versions of supplier’s systemsCommunications / business transactions with supply and customer chains
- Regulations
- Stay safe
- Need to be efficient
- A better way of operating, however big or small
- A new way of doing something
- Taking on new enterprises or just departments
- Modernising
- Keep clean and lean
- Getting rid of legacy systems and data
- Consolidating
- Centralising
- De-centralising
- Splitting
- Merging
- New strategy
- Etc
But have companies gone too far with worrying about the risks and are missing the point of keeping something simple or at the very least, appropriate so there is a positive rather than a negative focus?
As The Calm PM, I specialise in making IT and business change projects successful and stress-free. Leveraging three decades of industry experience, I offer tailored solutions that ensure your projects and programmes deliver exceptional results and drive sustainable growth.
What is Stressful about Projects?
In our time of information being key, there is a growing trend of joyless urgency, which has spilled into our projects world where everyone needs to know exactly what is happening every day on their precious projects. This is making every person across the project much busier than they need to be as the creation of information about the projects has far overtaken creating the actual change the project is to deliver. In addition, with this increased level of visibility, everyone must be seen to be productive at the highest level every day, hour and minute. This is seen at every level relating to project delivery.
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There is a Better Way
For 30 years I have been delivering, setting up, designing, mobilising, fixing, rescuing, closing out, and ensuring success in projects and 20 years doing the same for programmes. (Hopefully everyone knows the difference between projects and programmes but if not please see here Glossary.)
This has been across multiple industries with simple technology, complex technology and incredibly complex technology. With individuals, teams of all sorts of combinations of internal, external, hybrid, and many, many stakeholder mixtures. The projects and programmes have ranged from £60k to £100m, from small, focused teams of less than 10 to over 200 people, and from a few months duration to 2+ years. I never think I’ve seen and done it all, but 30 years with this variety builds up a significant wealth of experiences and solutions.
Unlock your business’s potential with The Calm PM approach. Achieve low-stress, successful delivery with my expert project and programme management services.
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