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Lucid Thoughts - Chapter 2

Much of the erudite thinking has been done long ago, but in our need to ‘re-invent the wheel’ we have often ignored what we know and what is accepted as common wisdom and ‘thrown the baby out with the bathwater’.

Subtly different from the last theme, this group of thoughts was really reminding us to start doing again the things that worked in the past. Some of the old things really did work. We looked at some of the barriers to adoption of these tried and tested ways.

11 Reviving the ancient art of scheduling

12 Put quality back in the iron triangle

13 Differentiating scope and quality

14 Use the right words and revive project planning

15 Effective project management for Government; an impossible dream?

16 Do all the best ideas come from construction?

17 Don’t forget the wise men who taught us all we know

18 One rule for us, and another rule for them

19 The value of projects and programmes

20 Project, programme or portfolio - what’s in a word?

64 What makes a good and usable project schedule?

65 To make an ass out of you and me?

78 The answer’s a spreadsheet, what’s the question?

79 Projects: The Productivity Paradox