Project management, in practice.
Practical articles and tactical templates for working project managers. Not exam-prep. Not content marketing. A working reference.
Written for working project managers.
You run projects for a living. You care about shipping outcomes, not just reporting on status. You want templates you can use on a live project, tactics that hold up under real pressure, and articles that respect how much you already know.
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I.Practising project managersLooking for sharper tools for RAID logs, earned value, and stakeholder management.
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II.Senior PMs & delivery leadsFocused on shipping, not reporting. The people held accountable when a programme goes sideways.
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III.Moving into programme managementOr PM leadership, and looking for the next layer up. The conceptual toolkit above the task board.
What you will find here.
- 01 Agile & Delivery Sprint backlog, velocity, T-shirt sizing, iteration versus flow, closing agile projects. 8 articles →
- 02 Risk & Issues Risk registers, tornado diagrams, Monte Carlo simulation, contingency reserves. 9 articles →
- 03 Planning & Scope Project charters, scope baselines, needs assessments, change management. 7 articles →
- 04 Performance & Metrics Earned value management, SPI, CPI, control charts. Metrics that show delivery, not activity. 8 articles →
- 05 Procurement & Contracts RFIs, RFPs, statements of work, contract types, bidder conferences. What PMs own on the commercial side. 7 articles →
- 06 Stakeholders Salience model, engagement matrices, conflict management, information radiators. 8 articles →
Gagan Singh — PMP · CISSP · CCSP
A working reference, written by a practising PM.
Gagan Singh is a practising project manager with ten years delivering on UK Critical National Infrastructure programmes. He writes this site because the PM content he wanted to read wasn't being written elsewhere.
This is not a personal blog. It is a working reference for people who deliver projects for a living.
The five most-read articles.
Written for practising project managers. Everything on this page is the work of one person, writing what he wishes had been written when he started.