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.
Latest Project Management Articles
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.
3 Myths About Managing Multiple Projects That Are Blocking Your Promotion
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! Managers promote people who are a safe pair of hands, who know how to get the job done and can work efficiently at all levels of the organization….
What Should a New Project Manager Focus On?
Dr. Mike Clayton offers some sage advice to new project managers and what they should focus on. Very helpful information for both the new project manager and the seasoned one.
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.
Do Women Make The Best Project Managers?
This is a guest post by Michelle Symonds, on behalf of Parallel Project Training. Clearly, men and women are different and deal with situations differently in the workplace. The skills that they naturally excel at rarely coincide and it is the innate talents of women that help to make them better project managers than men….
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…
How To Manage Multiple Projects At The Same Time
Copy what I do to manage your tasks, resources and time across several projects at once! This article shares loads of tips for staying on top of lots of different projects at once.
How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis
Learn more about creating a project team culture in this question and answer session with Colin Ellis.