These 3 fundamental management mistakes hit everyone at some point in their career. Learn what to look for and how to avoid these behaviours tripping you up. Great tips for keeping your work moving forward and your team happy!
Expand your problem solving toolkit by using your lessons learned log to uncover potential problems.
Presenting in meetings or to your boss is always a bit nerve-wracking. Here are 10 tips for giving a fantastic work presentation.
Here’s how project managers can help their teams manage project risk effectively, so that everyone benefits from effective risk management.
Social media is a de facto standard for businesses these days. Brands can thrive or wither on the quality of their social media manager and some networks can be ruthless. Campaigns and tweets can stick in customers’ memories for a long time: who can forget the Colin the Caterpillar struggles? (#FreeCuthbert!) They even made it…
This is a guest article by David Daly. Did you know, one survey found that the most common reason to adopt agile is to be able to deliver products more quickly? Yet the same survey found that 75% of people did not believe their organisation had a culture that supported agile ways of working. This…
The tip that has helped me most throughout my career is knowing that I have options. You have to work to get options, but once you have a strategy for your exit, you can face every difficult day at work with choices. That’s helped me get through many challenging projects.
These are the 6 things you need to focus on to keep your stakeholders happy. If you concentrate these items, you’ll address your stakeholders’ needs. The list is based on Emad Aziz’s presentation at a PMI Global Congress event.
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!