The answer is Yes…. Most of the time without realising it.

When I work with small and medium sized businesses, there’s a familiar pattern that shows up.
If I ask whether they run projects, the answer is usually no.
If I ask them to walk me through what they’re working on, suddenly the list gets longer.

A software upgrade.
A push into a new market.
A small rebrand.
A hiring plan.
A change in how they handle customer onboarding.
A new way of tracking their operations.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how we describe what we do at Coordinated Solutions over the Christmas and New Year break.

The easiest label is project management consultancy. It’s familiar and people understand it. But it never quite captures how projects actually work in practice, or why they succeed or struggle.

This one feels a bit surreal to write.

Coordinated Solutions hasn’t been around that long, so to already be recognised as Best Project Management Consultancy 2025 is a big moment for me. Not in a loud, celebratory way… more in a “blimey, that’s actually happened” way.

Fractional project management gives growing UK businesses access to senior leadership on demand improving delivery efficiency, reducing costs, and cutting project failure rates caused by poor communication and unclear ownership.

Coming to the Skills Symposium as a new Provider Member of NSAN took me right back to the start of my project management journey, a young 21-year-old heading out into the New Mexico desert to deliver my first projects for URENCO. Those memories quickly resurfaced, the initial trepidation of visiting an enrichment facility for the very first time, armed with little understanding of exactly what was going on or whether there were any risks involved.