Category: Capital Project Challenges

Opacity isn’t chaos or disorder (but it can lead there fast). It is believing you can see the project clearly, especially when you are really looking at a filtered, simplified version of it. Dashboards glow green while trouble grows elsewhere. This video explores how siloed teams, delayed reporting, optimistic narratives and poor visibility create late…

The biggest lie in project delivery is that the plan is an accurate forecast of the future. Plans are useful, but they are not prophecy, despite what PowerPoint enthusiasts may claim. This video explains two forms of change. Informational change happens when new knowledge emerges. Structural change happens when the decision environment itself shifts from…

Complexity is often used as an explanation for capital project difficulty. Yet it has a specific meaning: cause and effect are hard to predict in advance. In large projects, that means technically sound decisions in one area can create unexpected problems somewhere else. This matters most in the early stages, when budgets, schedules and delivery…