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When you're rolling out to many clients

Thirty clients don't need thirty plans

Rolling out to many client sites feels like many projects. It's one plan with small variations, and the evidence is in two checklists that matched for 37 rows, typos included. Here's what that means for how you plan a rollout.

5 min read · 22 Oct 2026Read

When a project has stalled

What a three-month delay actually costs

A delay isn't just a later date. Finished work expires while a project waits, and almost no plan accounts for it, so a replan after a long pause is wrong before anyone starts. Here's what goes stale, and what survives.

6 min read · 14 Oct 2026Read

A stalled project rarely announces itself

Projects don't usually fail dramatically. They slow, the status stays green, and one day the deadline is three months away. Written from ERP implementation, though the pattern isn't ERP-specific — here's how stalls hide, and what an honest restart takes.

6 min read · 2 Oct 2026Read

When the reports say everything's fine

Why a green status report tells you nothing

Green means nobody reported a problem. It doesn't mean anyone checked. Those are different statements, and most projects read the first as the second until the week it matters.

6 min read · 8 Oct 2026Read