About

Independent field notes on project management, PMO governance and delivery practice

PM Added Value (PAV) is a place for sharing practical observations, lessons learned and perspectives from the realities of project delivery.

PAV is built around a simple idea.
There is often a gap between how projects are supposed to work and how delivery actually happens.

From theory to delivery

Plans, governance, methodologies and tools provide essential structure. But much of project delivery happens around them. Working with stakeholders, navigating uncertainty, making decisions, resolving dependencies and finding practical ways to keep things moving.

PAV explores this space between project management theory and the realities of delivery.

Field Notes look at lessons from complex project environments, practical approaches and tools, technology and transformation, professional judgement and ethics, and how the project management profession is evolving.

Field Notes are published here in written form, with audio versions also available on Spotify.

There are no universal recipes or claims of one right way to manage a project. The focus is on practical observations, lessons learned and perspectives that may be useful to others.

Giving back

Much of what we learn as project professionals comes from experience. From working with people, solving problems, dealing with situations that did not go according to plan and learning what to do differently next time.

PAV is a way of sharing some of those lessons with the project management community.

If a Field Note starts a discussion, offers a different perspective or gives someone an idea they can use, it has added value.

Independent perspective

PM Added Value is an independent personal initiative.

The views and observations shared through PAV reflect the author’s personal perspective and do not represent those of any current or former employer or other organisation.