RE: Prem12 Mar 2021 11:21
Morning guys. Slept on it, I don't think my opinion of the opportunity has changed. In fact what I think has been happening is things have been run quite tight in the company. I would like to know if they have any project management resources on the team. I appreciate the CFO is new to the industry so this trip to site should be good for him. However the company could really benefit from a project management resource and follow a project management methodology. Hence they should be:
1. Putting together plans and timelines with key milestones acting as their deliverables
2. This should be tied into budget and spend, including with their JV partner.
3. Risks (i.e. things that could happen) should be identified and a plan to mitigate should be put in place
4. Issues (i.e. things that have happened) should be tracked and regularly reviewed to resolution
5. Dependencies should also be mapped out. Such as identifying resources equipment to do X,Y,Z
This is not rocket science but it does take discipline and someone who is organised and has the gravitas to lead an initiv e like this to support the BOD.
For instance I'm still astonished they did not appear to know that IAM has missed their Y3 £1m target. An example of a good project management session would link COVID to the possibility that IAM could miss their target - hence that is a risk. Then you mitigate it by either doing something about it in the form of additional resources or accept it and update the stakeholders accordingly.
Anyhow we still have IAMG interested which is a positive. Or the opportunity to bounce them out which probably makes no sense. They should seek compensation but who knows how the JV was signed, it actually pre-dates Tim if I understand correctly.
Smart thing to do would be renegotiate and ensure additional resources make up time on the over spend, market would react favourable to that.
Easy for me to say, well because I've been in situations where projects have derailed and I have worked to get them back on track so I know it can be done. Let's hope they use this to put the house in order.