The blog posts by Mark Whitfield, a Senior IT Project and Engagement Manager, primarily focus on practical project management (PM) frameworks, methodology implementation, and digital delivery execution.
Hosted on his platform, PROject Templates, the blog acts as an extension of his 30+ year career transitioning from mainframe engineering to leading large-scale Agile and Waterfall digital transformations.
Blog Overview and Key Topics
The core purpose of the blog is to guide project professionals through real-world deployment challenges while showcasing an ecosystem of over 200 editable Microsoft Office templates.
The main content focus areas include:
- Framework Implementation: In-depth overviews on aligning project lifecycles with PRINCE2 (7th Edition), Agile Scrum, and Kanban methodologies.
- Detailed Project Planning: Actionable steps for setting up Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), defining dependencies, establishing milestones, and handling project baselines.
- Operational Checklists: Daily, highly practical guides tailored for specific team roles, such as his “Daily Checklist for Scrum Masters”.
- Risk and Governance Control: Best practices on organizing and managing RAIDs logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, Dependencies), change requests, and corporate project governance.
- High-Level Reporting: Frameworks for structural communication with stakeholders, utilizing Plan on a Page (POaP) examples, dashboard designs, and financial budget tracking templates.
- Digital & Cloud Delivery Lessons: Real-world insights drawn from his corporate and public sector experiences, covering topics like middleware architecture deployments and hybrid cloud application refactoring.
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