MHA Management
Insights.
Process notes from active engagements — not commissioned thought leadership, not lead-magnet copy. Each post is one practice, one procedure, written down with the rigor we'd want from anyone we hired. Organised by phase of the MHA method.
The pre-mortem: writing the project's obituary before it starts
Before scope freezes, we sit down and write the story of how this project failed. A 30-minute exercise that surfaces more useful risks than any formal register ever does.
Risk registers that stay alive
Most risk registers are written once, presented monthly, and quietly forgotten. The format and cadence we use to keep one actually useful for the full length of a project.
The five questions that kill bad scope before it freezes
Scope freezes badly when nobody asked the questions that would have surfaced the unstated assumptions. These are the five we ask in every Shape phase, with the kinds of answers we look for.
Status cadence: weekly, written, and what 'green' actually means
Why the weekly written status report beats every other cadence we've tried, the one-page format we use, and the operational rule that makes the colour codes mean something.
The eight artifacts we hand off at close
Engagements don't end when the last deliverable ships. They end when the client has everything they need to operate without us. These are the eight things we hand off, every time.
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