‘A Project Manager’s World Isn’t Square’ - How CORE is Innovating The Iron Triangle

The Iron Triangle

The Iron Triangle, known as the triple constraint or project management cycle has been widely adopted as a quality measurement tool by Project Managers influenced by a project’s 3-point constraint of time, cost and scope.

Over time and with advancement of technology and criticism, it would be easy to update these three points, or make it a diamond, star or square shape with factors such as personal motivation, politicisation or technology, which are all valid influences; so why hasn’t the triangle evolved? 

Paul Bass, our Managing Director says: “The main answer is its simplicity, as the vast majority of project KPIs are still largely based around time, cost and scope.”

But advancements in technology have presented new challenges such as the management of large amounts of project data including emails, images, video, various documents and PDFs and ensuring compliance with changes in recent UK legislation including The Data Protection Act (2018) and GDPR. 

If The Iron Triangle is here to stay though, how else can Architects, Directors and Project Management teams delivering and implementing huge projects and managing large budgets work smartly and evolve to deliver projects accurately, on time and within budget?

“We believe CORE is the answer” says Paul. He adds: “CORE is a fast, secure and cloud-based project management software tool with one powerful and easy to use interface. 

It provides a single point of truth with customisable reports and dashboards from the data, and measures key project metrics with built-in early warning notifications to its users, to empower them to take action to keep the project on time and on budget.”

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