Series · Coming soon
Project Focus for business success
A practical series on the method behind everything on this site: how to turn goals into owned projects, run them with a simple weekly rhythm and let automation and AI carry the repeating work.
How it will work
- Eight short, practical chapters that build on each other.
- Every chapter ends with one thing to do this week and a template to use.
- Examples come from very different businesses: a restaurant, a clinic, a startup, a lodge.
The case
The first chapter will explain the whole method on one page. The related guides below already cover many of the ideas the series will build on.
The outline
8 parts, one at a time.
Titles may change as I write them. Each part will link here as soon as it is published.
- 01Project Focus on one pageComing soon
- 02The three engines: leads, operations and salesComing soon
- 03Your first scoreboard: three numbers that matterComing soon
- 04The weekly rhythm: a 30-minute meeting that runs the businessComing soon
- 05From goal to owned project: the project cardComing soon
- 06When to automate and when to add an AI agentComing soon
- 07Project Focus in a restaurant, a clinic and a startupComing soon
- 08The 90-day review: what to keep, fix and dropComing soon
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Read meanwhile
Guides that already cover parts of this.
The 90-Day Sprint: How Startups Use Project Focus to Find Their First Customers
Ninety days, three projects, one scoreboard. A practical way for startups to build leads, operations and sales at the same time.
Interactive tool: Build your 90-day sprint
01
Data-Driven Project Management: Measure What Moves the Result
Data does not manage projects, people do. How to pick the few numbers that change decisions, collect them without drama and act on them every week.
Interactive tool: Is your project data-driven?
21
Automate the Boring Stuff: 7 Workflows Every Small Business Should Run on Autopilot
Seven repetitive workflows that quietly eat your week, and how to hand them to automation.
Interactive tool: How many hours could you get back?
12
Project Governance for Small Teams: Just Enough Structure
Governance sounds heavy, but a small team needs five things: clear roles, a decision rhythm, decision rights, simple gates and a record of choices.
Interactive tool: Governance check
14
Capacity Planning: Find the Bottleneck Before It Finds You
Every team has one constraint that sets its speed. See it, protect it and plan around it instead of asking everyone to run faster.
Interactive tool: Capacity health check
More in the guides library and the free templates. Also coming: One project, step by step, through the PMBOK lens.
Next step
Let's find the project that moves your business.
Tell me where things are stuck. I will tell you which project I would start with.