Agile Project Management for Marketing
Agile marketing means making different project management decisions based on what teams know about the new normal. Learn more in this article.
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.
What To Do When Your Team Doesn’t Believe The Project Schedule
Find out what you can do when your team doesn’t believe the project schedule. You’ll know when this happens because the dates you’ve set go whizzing by…and no one cares. This article will help you and your team get back on track (and back on the same page).
Expected Monetary Value (EMV): A Project Manager’s Guide
Learn what Expected Monetary Value is and how to apply it in project management. Spoiler: It’s not that hard as techniques go!
How To Communicate Effectively When You’ve Got No Time For Meetings
Learn how to communicate effectively with your team when you don’t have time for meetings. These tips will make it easier to get your messages out there!
5 Golden rules for writing good project documentation
Ues these 5 project documentation tips to make the document writing process easier.
20 Things For Your Project Management Plan [With 3 Free Templates]
A helpful guide to creating a comprehensive project management plan along with a handy PDF to refer to.
Best Books for Women in Project Management
These are my four favourite books for women in leadership and women in project management positions.
5 Mistakes Every Project Manager Should Avoid
Learn about 5 common pitfalls facing project managers, and how you can avoid them tripping you up. Even a tiny mistake on your end could cost the organization a lot of money, or worse still, the entire project, so it’s worth understanding what you can do to stop those issues happening to you.
Ladder and Hot Air Balloon Scheduling
Project managers tend to live or die by their schedules. They shape decisions, priorities and stakeholder engagements. We feel good when the schedules give us confidence. We feel nervous when they change a lot. We feel out of control when the schedule is clearly fictional with no chance of ever being delivered. It’s no surprise…
A Framework for Managing Multiple Projects
How do you start to get your work under control when you are juggling several projects at once? That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The starting point is knowing how all the different parts of your workload fit together so you can manage them in an efficient way. And do…
The 30-Minute Miracle That Will Change The Way You Leave The Office
Becoming a mum helped me to realise that I was not transitioning between tasks all that well. Here is what I learned about work/life integration and how I’ve improved my day.
3 Reasons You Need the Skills to Manage Multiple Projects
Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work (and still leave the office on time!) Why do you need to learn how to manage multiple projects? That’s what we’re looking at in this article. I’ll share…