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Episode 543: Catch Project Trouble Early and Protect Your Delivery

Episode 543: Catch Project Trouble Early and Protect Your Delivery

Update: 2025-12-06
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Subtle problems often start long before a project shows obvious signs of distress. Leaders feel the pressure to deliver momentum, teams shift toward activity over outcomes, and stakeholders slowly fade as competing priorities pull them away. In this conversation, Matthew Oleniuk brings his experience from overseeing large public sector projects and highlights seven early indicators that signal when a project is heading toward trouble. He explains why these issues are easy to ignore, how they quietly compound over time, and why strong leadership vigilance matters more than any dashboard color. He also describes how patterns like output beating outcome, performance theater, and risk box ticking show up in real projects and why they are so harmful when left unchallenged.



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Episode 543: Catch Project Trouble Early and Protect Your Delivery

Episode 543: Catch Project Trouble Early and Protect Your Delivery

Cornelius Fichtner