Chpokify is your essential sprint planning kit. I looked specifically at the planning poker® element but the tool does more than that. Read on to find out how it could help your agile team set effective sprint goals through better planning and estimating. Summary Product: Chpokify Cost and plans: Free account gives you 10 users…
At the social media webinar I gave for the PMI LEAD Community of Practice one of the main themes coming out of the comments and questions from participants was how to deal with the extra information channels that social media tools offer. People generally seem quite worried about how to handle information overload, to the…
Find out why resolving issues on projects is like the work Sherlock Holmes does in the Conan Doyle stories. Learn how you can use the techniques of the great detective to sort out problems on your projects quickly.
Learn the three most important things for giving presentations, and read about how I failed spectacularly at one of them during my worst presentation ever. Believe me, I do things differently now!
Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. At the…
A couple of times people have said to me that sharing the project budget with their team members is Not A Good Idea. I don’t know why that is the case – they are stakeholders too. I think it is essential to be transparent about the budget, how it was created and how you, as…
On International Women’s Day I wanted to share some tips from the fabulous women in project management whom I have interviewed on this blog. Here are 15 amazing career tips that will help you build your career.
I shared some really personal issues about my role as a project manager and so many of you reached out to let me know that I am not alone. Here is some of your thoughts and advice.
PMI has released its Global Megatrends 2022 report, which is an analysis of the global forces significantly impacting society and the project management profession today. The report helps project professionals understand the world’s rapid transformation and the global context in which they work so they can use projects to solve complex problems. “The world continues…
Learn why a network matters as a project management professional and how you can build your own to make sure that you still have people to turn to when your latest assignment comes to an end. Bruce Harpham shares 5 ideas for building a professional network and also talks about how you can serve your community while networking at the same time!
How do you put together business requirements? This article explains how to get started gathering, compiling, eliciting and recording business requirements for projects. It draws on both waterfall and Agile approaches to give you practical tips for your projects.
Aaron Irizarry spoke at the Digital PM Summit about ways to cope when you have a troubled project. Here are his three ways of getting a project under control. They apply to both big and small problems.