by David | Nov 11, 2014 | Business or Mission Analysis, Implementation, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
Most Oil & Gas manufacturing projects start out with good intentions. The main focus at the start of the project is to make the promised delivery date. But what usually happens is things start to go wrong, and the delivery date looks impossible. But the...
by David | Oct 28, 2014 | Implementation
For a few weeks we’ve been hearing rumblings in the news of $65-$75 a barrel for West Texas Intermediate. We just read an article this morning about how Goldman Sachs has forecasted a WTI price of $70 for early next year, with the price increasing back to $80 by 2016...
by Frank | Oct 22, 2014 | Business or Mission Analysis, Implementation
Lots of talk nowadays about 1%ers. As an inadvertent student of groups of people, I have noticed trends over time and I will tell you that generally, when the chips are down, the 1% you want to be associated with are the ones that are committed, have their own motor...
by David | Oct 20, 2014 | Business or Mission Analysis, Implementation, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
One of the main reasons Oil & Gas manufacturing projects fail is because risks are rarely identified ahead of time. As a result, we see the following organizational troubles: • Frequent surprises • People constantly reacting to events • Every reaction is...
by David | Sep 16, 2014 | Implementation, System Analysis, Transition
Having lived in England for a few years, I got to be pretty good at navigating the London subway, also known as the “Tube” or “Underground”. One of the warnings repeatedly blared out over the station speakers reminded travelers to “Mind the Gap” between the platform...
by David | Apr 1, 2014 | Business or Mission Analysis, Implementation, Stakeholder Needs and Requirements
Most of the project management systems we’ve seen in Oil & Gas manufacturing businesses are “ad hoc”. This means that there is no formal framework used by the business to deliver projects consistently over time. In short, there are no processes,...
