Competitive Dialogue - games bidders play

Competitive Dialogue is a procedure used by public-sector organisations to select contractors for complex, high-risk projects. Unlike other procedures, this one allows the buying authority to hold discussions with all the contenders throughout an extended bidding process, to help them refine their solutions. Competitive Dialogue is capable of creating a perfect match between contracts and contractors. But on the other hand, it can also lead to some intriguing game-playing… [...]

Project Viability Assessment

This article was first published in 2001 and is copyright © 2001, Richard Byford and Kevin Potts.

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Singing from the same song-sheet

Article originally published in Project Management Review, November 2001. Copyright 2001 (c) Richard Byford

Teamwork is based on harmony, as Richard Byford explains in this light-hearted look at the benefits gained when team members sing to the same song sheet

The studio is dark, illuminated only by a few soft [...]

What Makes a Company Capable?

Richard Byford’s speaker’s notes from Project Challenge 2002 conference, Birmingham, England, 2nd May 2002.

Just enough process

The conventional wisdom about project assurance usually focuses on the processes, procedures and tools used. These include the use of planning and scheduling tools, requirements, configuration, resource and change management – and procedures to guarantee safety, accountability [...]