PM Tools by a PM
PM Tools by a PM
Engineer. PMP certified. Twenty years running projects across three sectors and three regions. Everything here started as a problem I could not solve with what was available.
Every module started as a real frustration. A payment certificate that took too long. A risk register nobody updated. A claim that died because the notice went out on day twenty-nine.
I have spent my career managing projects — running schedules, administering FIDIC contracts, building quality management systems, coordinating procurement and logistics across sites in Latin America, the United States and the Caribbean. Construction, oil and gas, and manufacturing.
That range matters more than it sounds. Most construction PMs have only ever seen construction. Working across three sectors means seeing three different quality regimes, three contract cultures, and three sets of assumptions about what is normal — which is the fastest way to learn which of your assumptions were only ever local habits.
A fair question, and worth answering directly.
I still work in this industry. I work with contractors, consultants and clients who may one day appear on the other side of a project from something written here. Keeping the brand separate from my name means I can write honestly about what goes wrong on projects without any of it reading as commentary on a particular job, or creating a conflict where none exists.
Nothing here identifies a client, a project or a country. Where an article draws on real experience, it is generalised into the pattern — because the pattern is the useful part anyway. One company’s bad month teaches you nothing. The mechanism that produced it teaches you everything.
Judge the work, not the name attached to it. The credentials are real, the experience is real, and the tools either help you on Monday or they don’t.
I read everything. If you have a case worth writing about, a tool that is missing, or a correction — especially a correction — I want to hear it.
FIDIC cases, quality systems, schedule control, and new tools. Written from real projects, not from a classroom. No filler, and nothing you could have found in a textbook.
