In project management, it’s called Critical Path Methodology, which will be familiar to anyone who’s done the PMP course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method Interesting that different… (View Post)

The goal, or the gaol? ;) Yes, the critical constraint should be familiar to anyone who’s run projects or worked in complex production. There’s always one machine or process that determines the throu… (View Post)

The debate about both Covid vaccines and childhood vaccines is also very different between the UK and the US. On Covid vaccines, hundreds of thousands of people in the US were fired from their jobs f… (View Post)

The same story has been around for three decades since PFI started. The supplier underbids for the main contract, but then the government discovers that the scope is much tighter than they thought it… (View Post)

Government procurement is an expensive mess that turns out to be really poor value for money, whoever would have thought that? They really need to employ a central team of contracts negotiators and a… (View Post)