Ask a project team who owns a decision, and watch what happens. Sometimes you get a clear answer. More often, there’s a pause. A glance around the table. A careful, “Well, it depends.” And that pause may be part of why the project is moving more slowly than everyone wants it to. Last week, I wrot...

It rarely looks like burnout. That’s the thing people miss. When a project team is running on empty, it doesn’t usually show up as someone falling apart in a meeting. It shows up quieter than that. Someone who used to raise their hand stops raising it. A person who was generous with their time st...

Most project teams believe they're making decisions about the work. Scope. Sequencing. Timelines. Trade-offs. The choices that keep a project moving and the plan on track. And they are, but they're also creating something else, usually without realizing it. Conditions. Conditions that other peopl...

  A project team makes a decision and moves on to the next one. That is how it is supposed to work. Decide. Deliver. Move. The momentum of a project depends on it. You can't stop and hold a ceremony for every choice, and no one is asking you to. But the decision does not stop moving when the team...