Why Project Management Is Like Surviving The Hunger Games
Find out why project management is just like The Hunger Games! You need a creative team, a flexible plan, a generous sponsor… Sound like any projects you’ve worked on?
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.
Risk management doesn’t have to be difficult
“We try to convey the earnesty and legitimacy of risk management by communicating as if it were a science,” said Mark Engelhardt, senior lecturer at IIL, during his presentation at PMI Hungary’s Art of Projects conference last week. “The problem is that risk management is far from being a science in most of our industries.”…
How to communicate in virtual teams: Hungarian PMs speak
I traveled to Budapest in 2014 to speak at the PMI Hungary Chapter’s Art of Projects conference for International Project Management Day. I gave a presentation on social media use in virtual teams and also ran a workshop on virtual meetings. My fellow facilitator and I split the audience and asked them to discuss issues…
The Mr Tumble Approach to Project Management (The Parent Project Month 20)
I said we’d never resort to television while Jack is still under 2, it’s not good for his development, language learning, he’s too young, blah blah blah. But we’ve soon found out that the gap between the end of his nap around 4pm and tea at 5.30pm is awful. So hello, Mr Tumble. You are…
Better stakeholder engagement: Interview with Oana Krogh-Nielsen
Oana Krogh-Nielsen, Head of PMO for the National Electrification Program at Banedanmark, spoke at Nordic Project Zone and I was lucky enough to catch up with her to ask about the amazing projects she is working on. Here’s what she had to say. Hello Oana! Let’s get started: can you explain your job? I lead…
Happy 21st Anniversary, Women in PM! [conference video]
This is my video diary from the Association for Project Management’s Women in Project Management Special Interest Group 21st Anniversary Conference last week. Approx 5m22s.
The Parent Project: Month 19
I been back at work full-time for a month. I am not superwoman. The only way I have been able to do this is to have an excellent team around me at home and at work and fab systems in place to make everything run smoothly. However, it is very clear that things are far…
What users want from project software: A case study
Pawel Wieckowski from GlaxoSmithKline presented a case study on their project software deployment at the Gartner PPM & IT Summit earlier this year. He started off by saying that they defined who would be using the tool. Users, he said, fell into the following categories: Project management community Project Management Office Senior management The whole…
Software review: Comindware Project
General information Name: Comindware Project Vendor: Comindware Hosting options: Web hosted and locally hosted Cost:Cloud service starts at $29.99 per user per month for up to 9 users. On-premise service starts at $450 per user (a lot, but that’s a one-off fee). Fees decrease the more users you have. Languages:English Currency: No currency options that…
Software review: Twproject
General information Name: TwprojectVendor: Open LabHosting options: Web hosted and locally hostedCost: Locally hosted from 1 user per year at 45€ with an interesting non-expiring licence option for between 1 and unlimited users capped at 5000€. Web hosted from 53€ a month for 10Gb of storage and 10 users. The cloud versions go up in…
Software review: activeCollab
General information Name: activeCollab Vendor: A51 Hosting options: Web hosted and locally hosted Cost: From $25 for a small cloud hosted option to $2999 a year for a mega cloud option, and reasonable locally hosted prices too. Languages:English as standard with the option of downloading German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Swedish. Plus you can translate…
Software review: Glip
General information Name: Glip Vendor: Glip Hosting options: Web hosted Cost: Free for basic features, 5GB of storage and up to 10k posts. When you run out of space you can move to the $5 per month per person model or scale up for more storage and priority support at $10 per month per person….