In my last blog, I spoke about the idea to extend our options to attract experienced Project Managers by creating a networked organisation. Add freelancers to The Independables pool of resources to extend our offer to our customers. In this blog, I will highlight a...

Before we officially started The Independables over a year ago, we created a business plan to think through our services and offering, financials, and of course, our growth model. In that growth model, we, like most people setting up a new organisation, envisioned a...

How many projects can a project manager handle without losing overview or impacting the output quality negatively? Many project managers have one assignment at a time. This allows for in-depth focus and 100% attention for this project. The amount of work to be...

The last few years we have experienced several crises in a row: pandemic, war, supply chain disruptions, shortages, high-energy prices, increasing food prices. Today, we stil feel the impact of the (past) crises and need to adjust to this new reality. And a next...

The success rate of business transformations is low, according to different studies (for example: McKinsey – 27% of transformation projects succeed). There are different success factors (and factors, when not addressed seriously, will cause failures), but what is the...

PMO stands for Project Management Office. It represents an entity that supports the project organisation with all kinds of project related activities. A PMO can be set up with limited responsibility, like taking minutes, archiving documents, apply naming conventions,...

One year ago, we founded The Independables (official date: 26th of January as registration date at the Chamber of Commerce). What started with an idea, several meetings, brainstorm sessions, dinners, coffees, and beers later is now an official company. And we survived...

This year started off really great for us. A previous established partnership that starts to pay off, new challenging assignments, first talks with experienced Project Managers that want to join us, an update of our website underway. We are building our company and...

What a year, 2021! A constant juggle of our work-life balance, decreasing and increasing levels of infections, changing (governmental) restrictions every few weeks, travel restrictions, postponed and cancelled team events, nights out, restaurant and theater visits....

In the previous blog, we introduced the fifth stage of the business transformation model VAPORS, called ‘Results’. In this final blog regarding VAPORS, we will explain the sixth stage, ‘Supervision’. As a reminder, the VAPORS Model consists of 6 stages: - Value -...

In the previous blog, we introduced the fourth stage of the business transformation model VAPORS, called ‘Output’. In this blog, we will explain the fifth stage, ‘Results’. As a reminder, the VAPORS Model consists of 6 stages: - Value - Assign - Progress - Output -...

In the previous blog, we introduced the third stage of the business transformation model VAPORS, called ‘Progress’. In this blog, we will explain the fourth stage, ‘Output’. As a reminder, the VAPORS Model consists of 6 stages: - Value - Assign - Progress - Output -...

In the previous blog, we introduced the second stage of the business transformation model VAPORS, called ‘Assign’. In this blog, we will explain the third stage, ‘Progress’. As a reminder, the VAPORS Model consists of 6 stages: - Value - Assign - Progress - Output -...

When dealing with large or international projects, multiple nationalities, culture and behaviours start to play a role. And we, as a Project Manager, need to take these differences into account, else the risk of failure will increase dramatically. We all know or heard...

In the previous blog, we introduced the first stage of the business transformation model VAPORS, called Value. In this blog, we will explain the second stage, ‘Assign’. As a reminder, the VAPORS Model consists of 6 stages: - Value - Assign - Progress - Output -...

In the previous blog, we introduced the business transformation model VAPORS. In the next blog posts, we will explain each stage in more detail. As a reminder, the VAPORS Model consists of 6 stages: - Value - Assign - Progress - Output - Results - Supervision ‘Value’...

With our long record of assignments and experience, we decided to create our own business transformation model. This model is a guide to support our customers in their transformation & improvements journey, moving from value definition over program design to...

We are open! We are open for business! Since the start of The Independables in March of this year, we had a great start. Challenging assignments, building our own company, establishing relationships with partners, interviewing the first interested employees. That is...

We don't follow is one of our principles that we feel strong about, mainly as it represents the importance of independent thinking. Blindly following project management methods like Prince2 or Agile/Scrum therefore is also not our preferred way of working. We...

At The Independables, we claim that we are unique. That we stand out, make the difference….and so does our competition. Each company differs from the other, in big or small ways. The way they interact with customers, the underlying business model, the way a company...

We started our company, The Independables, a few months ago and it has been a very rewarding journey up till now. The setup of the company, the many talks and meetings between the two of us to discuss our proposition, the content of our website, logo, software to...

Since the official start of The Independables in March of this year, we have spoken to many people: businesses, partners, friends, consultants, family. They all are very interested to see and hear what we have been doing so far and how we’re progressing. How is the...

We’re dealing with this pandemic for over a year and finally the light at the end of the tunnel gets visible. A very tiny light, but it is visible and a promise to a new world. History never gets back, neither will we. The old normal is history and will not return, a...

Templates and checklist  are never complete or fully correct. Also after many reviews, alterations and fine-tuning, there is always room for improvement. The perfect template or checklist simply does not exist! Why not? Real life is just evolving too fast and is too...

As Project Managers, we all know the Project Charter or Project Brief. This document marks the start of a project by documenting the goal of the project, the required result and under which conditions the project will be delivered. The Project Owner is responsible for...

Following a proven textbook project method sounds like a safe decision. Following a project approach that comes with the software also seems to make sense. However, too often these approaches are the cause of project failures. At The Independables we define the...

We save and we save a lot! Our saving accounts have been growing since the start of the pandemic. Once we realised the crisis was here to stay, our global tendency is to save for uncertain times. This uncertainty makes us consider our options and makes us realise that...

We will do whatever it takes, but we don’t follow. We believe that followers end up at other persons destinations. Followers just let life happen. So get in touch, join us or hire us, but don’t follow.   The Independables  

It is March 2021, we’re a year in lockdown. Remote work, many Teams and Zoom calls, taking care of the kids and their education, a curfew…the situation seems hopeless. And for most people it is hard to deal with this uncertainty. We just founded our new organisation...