Free and Low Cost Project Management Resources
I recommend these free project management templates and other resources when you are on a tight budget.
Latest Project Management Articles
How to Recover A Troubled Program
Learn how to implement a project recovery plan to deal with troubled projects and programmes. This 5-step approach will get your projects back on track and could save you from a failed project by finding ways to get some value from what’s happened (even if you can’t recover the project totally).
3 Ways to Practice Your Leadership Skills
Learn 3 solid ways to practise your leadership skills. Leadership is something that can be honed and developed – you just need to keep trying! Here are some practical ways that you can boost your leadership skills and get better at leading your team.
Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management: UVA Darden Course Review
The Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management is a great course you can do in a day. Read my review to see if it’s a good fit for you.
Google Project Management: Professional Certificate Review
Is the Google Project Management Certificate worth it? I went through the 6 courses to find out. Click to learn if it’s right for you.
PM Illustrated – The Fun Site to Support Your PMP® Exam Studies
This is a guest post by Mike Griffiths. “Fun” and “PMP Exam” are rarely used in the same sentence. Too often, training materials are text-based, process-focused, and dry. However, fun is a serious business in adult learning; it boosts retention and cuts study time. We recall facts about our favorite hobbies and sports teams much…
Business Resilience: An Overview
Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! To get the benefits of better business resilience, you need to commit at the most senior levels within the…
Winning stakeholder support when time and energy are limited
Learn the process for winning stakeholder support with a simple model in this guest post by Jo Ann Sweeney.
Why do stakeholders contribute?
Why do stakeholders take part in projects? You might think that’s an obvious question. After all, your project sponsor is probably the one who wanted this project to happen in the first place, and he or she has a vested interest in making it a success. But aside from the sponsor, all those other stakeholders…
4 ways to proactively manage stakeholders
Instead of taking a wait and see approach, use these 4 methods to proactively manage stakeholders on your projects.
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4 Unusual Reasons Why Stakeholder Management Is Important
Why is stakeholder management important to project success? Because we need people to get the project work done. However, stakeholder management is a very narrow way of looking at how we work with people on projects to achieve a common goal. A better question would be, “Why is stakeholder engagement important?” Let’s park that for…