5 Simple Reasons Why Processes Don’t Work
The reasons why processes don’t work are actually pretty simple. Let’s look at 5 common reasons why processes fail to serve you when managing projects and what you can do about them.
Author: Elizabeth Harrin
Elizabeth Harrin is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management in the UK. She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University, and several project management certifications including APM PMQ. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004 and has worked extensively in project delivery for over 20 years.
Elizabeth is also the founder of the Project Management Rebels community, a mentoring group for professionals. She's written several books for project managers including Managing Multiple Projects.
Book review: Risk Happens
Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. It enables you to manage the project more effectively and work towards a smooth outcome. So what exactly is project risk…
Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]
In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video. Transcript Hello, everybody. My name…
10 Tips for being more customer-centric on your projects
Do you wish that your project stakeholders were a bit more involved, or that you knew what they were thinking? You can find out – you just have to ask them. One technique I use is to ask project stakeholders (whom I call customers, as they are the customers of the project management process) how…
Clarifying Misconceptions of the Big Launch
A big ‘launch’ type event is not always necessary to kickstart a new project. Read this excerpt from the Science of Growth by Sean Ammirati to find out what really works.
5 Tips for Managing Project Communications in a Crisis
There are always things that go wrong on projects – sometimes those issues are small; sometimes they are significant. Here are 5 tips to help you deal with project communications during an issue.
3 Ways to Make Project Meetings Relevant to Everyone
Learn how to engage everyone during a meeting – and if you really can’t make that work, learn some strategies for keeping people as focused as possible while you have them in the room. These are great tips for anyone running meetings with multi-disciplinary teams.
How to Get Ready for Next Week
Make it easy to get ready for next week and hit the ground running at work on Monday with these tips for planning ahead. Use Friday afternoon to sort out your inbox and check your upcoming appointments so you can really enjoy the weekend.
The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors
Learn how you can work with project sponsors effectively as a project manager in this definitive guide.
A Guide to Project Closure: 12 Essential Things To Do
Here is a checklist of 12 things that you should do during project closure to make sure the work is wrapped up efficiently.
Fostering Knowledge Sharing in Project Management Communities [Video]
Do you run a knowledge community for project managers? These tips will help you boost engagement and increase knowledge sharing in your community.
How To Manage Fixed Date Projects in PRINCE2®
Learn how to manage fixed date projects in PRINCE2 with this helpful article.