When you hire a consultant, you only know if you’re paying a fair fee if you have some idea of what the project is worth to you. Unfortunately, you overestimate the contribution of your project to whatever your larger goal is and therefore you risk overestimating the value of your project. By the way, this…

Every Project Has Risks The work may take too long and miss an important deadline, or use more of your people’s time than you originally thought, or become irrelevant because your needs change, just to name a few. Usually those risks are given a passing thought, at most, then dismissed prior to bringing in a…