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A short informal podcast on the management of projects, project management and how you and your company can manage projects better, leadership and how business, business management and projects can integrate to get better value for your business from your projects …… while walking the dog.

It’s here to help, hopefully entertain but not to tell you how to do your job, just give you the ideas, thoughts, tips.

For more details or help with your projects and management of project get in touch, see www.cowshedprojects.com

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Send us a text This time bats!!! And a brief explanation of why you don’t need project managers but you do need to understand project management. Things get a bit weird with covering bases. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Hello and a short unsure introduction and the concept of value and profit in projects briefly explained.  Sunny runs ... hope its a good thing and helps in a small way.A BETTER WAY - CS PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTERwww.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text Sunny splashes ........ I talk about empowerment and how it adds value to your projects and business. I introduce an example of the difference in a couple of businesses I've worked with. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text I explain a bit more about value and how you can find it, get it and give it in your projects and business. Sunny chases a hare, I give a recent simple example of getting value from a three way with a writing box. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text It’s dark and sunny can’t be seen then it rains. I give an Introduction to one of the principles to value focused managing. Trust and enable the right people and wondering why project managers want to be designers. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text In this episode sunny bounces, I explain a reason projects don't make the profits that they should with a concept centred around a bucket of gin. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text Today one of us swims, one of us explains one of the principles of getting value and better profits from your projects and for the business of 'the project is for the business'. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text Today I ramble a bit about what you need to be a project manager and what you need to look for from a project manager. There are trees, beware! AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text Today I’ll explain the importance of getting the right information to make profit and good projects. There is an incident with a tree, I talk a lot about trees and spreadsheets and apples. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Episode 9 - value

Episode 9 - value

2023-04-1006:29

Send us a text What is value? A bit more explained and my working introduction to it. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text This weeks episode is about fear and how it holds projects and businesses back from achieving great things. Especially in a top down run company. I talk about how rubbish it made me and get wet. There’s a squirrel! There is a very good book I can recommended on fear in this context. It’s an uncomfortable read at first because it scary realising you are wrong, until you accept it. Fear Less, by Pippa Grange Read it! AN EVEN BETTER WAY...
Send us a text Do you get frustrated by either decisions being made that shouldn’t by others or having to make them all yourself. Today a brief explanation of a technique that could get you value through allowing decisions to be made by all that aligns with the business goals. It could save you and projects time. Small gains add up to big wins. Bluebells are out! AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AN...
Send us a text Today I talk about one of the principles I use in managing projects … don’t do it if you don’t need to. Which has a sub heading of …. does it make it better. It’s an idea which may help you be better that often gets ignored as an option. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, ...
Send us a text Brief follow up to episode 13 .. because I think this gives another good insight into how not doing something may help and because I can’t edit files together yet …. Enjoy. AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text To understand is the foundation to getting better projects, decisions and value. This episode explains why this podcast, what it is for and how it can help. So you can understand! AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text Today how not being decisive can make you more decisive to make the right decisions. I know it sound counter intuitive. You don’t always have to be 100% sure, you can’t always be 100% sure, so use it to your advantage to make better decisions. Try it it may help. And the bluebells are out! AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the busin...
Send us a text This is simple … when I say when you understand you know how to do things better. But how often do you try to understand? Be aware of one of the principles to better management of projects and you can get better value from them. 2 swans are a swimming, and it’s not Christmas! AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and a...
Send us a text You can set up how you manage your projects in different ways. There is no right way other than the way it works for you. Here is a quick overview and some thoughts of how you could! AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text This episode is about something you all know is good but maybe also don’t see how to get the best value from. Learning… AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com
Send us a text What’s more important quality, cost or time in a project? … the answer is all of them but to get the best out of a project you have to prioritise one at at time and in an order to get the best end result. This explains a bit more … it’s a beautiful day to! AN EVEN BETTER WAY - COWSHED PROJECTS VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER. For the project and the business. For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you ...
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