By Steve Morse By treating land and permitting as core governance inputs—not administrative afterthoughts—utilities can create predictable, scalable, and resilient delivery. Field SCADA lifecycle management programs are often viewed as technology modernization efforts. In practice, program success depends more on supporting business processes than on the technology itself. The most significant constraint is land access and permitting. For multi-year, multi-site programs, land

By Steve Morse - Sr. Project Manager Utilities depend on field SCADA systems for safe, real-time visibility and control of gas, water and electric operations. Yet many legacy systems were built over decades without standards or a formalized lifecycle management program. As a result, designs vary from site to site, documentation practices differ across teams and vendors, and field crews often spend significant time reworking issues that could have been resolved early in the pr

All projects encounter risks and issues, and how a project manager navigates them often determines success or failure. Simply logging and tracking risks and issues is not enough. Administration and facilitation skills alone cannot drive results. What truly makes the difference is strong mediation skills. A mediator guides people with differing perspectives toward a resolution everyone can support, without imposing their own views. The best mediators combine emotional intellig

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