Teams add software when they should be making decisions. They introduce dashboards when they should be clarifying ownership. They automate noise instead of...

Ben Webb

• Dec 31

A New Year Doesn’t Fix a Project

Every January, the world gets a “reset”.

New plans. New language. But the same unresolved problems.

The calendar changing doesn’t create momentum in projects. Decisions do.

Most projects don’t stall because of complexity. They stall because people...

• Dec 30

If It Can Be Dealt With Now, Deal With It

One of the simplest rules I apply on complex projects is this:

If it can be dealt with now, deal with it. If it doesn’t have a true predecessor dependency, do it now.

Most project delays aren’t caused by critical path constraints. They’re...

project Project Management

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Ben Webb

• Jan 8

A status report can explain a project perfectly and still leave it exactly where it is.

Information is not progress. Decisions are.

If nothing changed after the report, it wasn’t control — it was narration.

Ben Webb

• Jan 7

Why Most Projects Don’t Fail Loudly

Most projects don’t collapse in a dramatic moment. They don’t end with a crisis meeting or a single bad decision.

They fail quietly.

They fail in the weeks where no one makes a call. In the meetings where everyone agrees and nothing changes. In...

• Jan 2

“Why Most Projects Don’t Need Better Tools”

Most failing projects don’t have a tooling problem. They have a thinking problem.

Teams add software when they should be making decisions. They introduce dashboards when they should be clarifying ownership. They automate noise instead of...

Ben Webb

• Dec 31

A New Year Doesn’t Fix a Project

Every January, the world gets a “reset”.

New plans. New language. But the same unresolved problems.

The calendar changing doesn’t create momentum in projects. Decisions do.

Most projects don’t stall because of complexity. They stall because people...

• Dec 30

If It Can Be Dealt With Now, Deal With It

One of the simplest rules I apply on complex projects is this:

If it can be dealt with now, deal with it. If it doesn’t have a true predecessor dependency, do it now.

Most project delays aren’t caused by critical path constraints. They’re...

project Project Management