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Practical project management for delivery leaders.
Written by Simon Inglis — frameworks, war stories, and hard-won lessons from 20 years of delivering projects in government, healthcare, and enterprise IT.
No theory for theory's sake. Just what actually works when the schedule is slipping, the sponsor is nervous, and the team needs a path forward.
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ANAO found Land 400 Phase 3's schedule reporting overstates progress and obscures slippage. The finding traces to a procurement departure that was not clearly communicated to government. When the delivery model changes, three things need to reset.
Uber's AI coding spend hit enterprise software scale before anyone built procurement governance for it. Three questions PMs should check in their 2026 cost baselines.
When AI compresses build time, the bottleneck doesn't disappear. It moves upstream to requirements. And in COTS delivery, requirements were already the hard part.