How to Manage Multiple Projects Webinar
Check out this free webinar on how to manage multiple projects. Learn tips and strategies for all project managers to make progress on your projects.
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.
5 Tips for Returning To Work After Maternity Leave
Learn how to manage your transition back to the workplace after maternity leave with these 5 tips for making your return to work easier.
How to do Rolling Wave Planning
Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Primarily more detailed planning in…
How I learned to manage multiple projects and still leave the office on time
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! “There’s another project I’m just waiting to hear about,” said my sponsor. I silently groaned. I was already managing a couple of projects and while I probably could…
Are You Ready For The Social Tech Revolution?
Learn why it’s not important to learn the latest hot social media tools that new entrants are using in their personal lives, but to understand that when these people start working in project teams, they will not only be comfortable with social media tools – they will expect and demand that those tools are used. A great guest contribution about the power of social technologies!
Why I’ve Lost My Way As A Project Manager
In this very personal post I explain how I’ve lost my way as a project manager, what I’m doing about it and what is going to change.
The Frog Project: Saving wildlife one bucket at a time
In 2012, Helen Mason stood outside her home and looked at the road. Every day there were more frogs and toads that hadn’t made it to the other side. The increasing numbers of dead amphibians made her feel that the local population of frogs and toads needed a helping hand to cross the road. So…
The 7-S Framework: Project Management Remix
Learn more about the 7-S framework and how it can help your projects stay aligned with your organization’s goals.
Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project
Learn why IT departments risk accidentally (or deliberately) blocking business change and how other teams risk missing the technical implications of what they want to do, such as data security. Technical project teams are key to driving forward business transformation, and only when ‘the business’ works together as one will we see the best benefits being realised from change. How do you think about your IT team?
The project customer role
Learn more about the project customer role on projects including who they are, what they do on a project and how to work with them.
7 Tips for Managing International Project Teams
Learn how to manage an international project team with these 6 tips. You’ll see how to better appreciate the differences and create a trusting team environment for project work.
The Skills You Need to be a Top Communicator
“The successful project communicator is a good networker and builds effective working relationships within the project, across the wider organization of which the project is a part and sometimes externally,” writes Ann Pilkington in her book, Communicating Projects. You need good communication skills in order to be able to do that, but what are ‘good…