What It Means To Balance Work And Family
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.
Latest Project Management Articles
6 Challenges in project management today
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…
How to Build Your Project Management Network
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 to compile business requirements
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.
3 Ways to Cope When Your Project Goes Off The Rails
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.
The Art of Stakeholder Management
These 5 steps will help you engage your stakeholders and manage the varying (and competing) expectations of the people interested in your project. Find out why communication is the best thing you can do.
Best PMI-ACP Study Guides
Short on time? The best PMI-ACP exam prep book is PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths. You’re here because you are planning to take your PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)® exam. Well, you’re in the right place! As well as a PMI-ACP training course, the most successful students also include a study guide in their…
Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books
Short on time? Pick one book to supplement your PMI-ACP studies. I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. Are you aiming to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)®? The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as…
How I Do It: Communication Tools & Tips
Find out how I manage project stakeholder communications on my projects. These are my tried-and-tested techniques. Are there ideas here that you could use on your projects? Let me know if you put my tips into action!
What are the relevant factors that drive or result from information overload?
Thomas asked this question during the PMI Learning, Education and Development Community of Practice presentation I gave about Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. We were talking about using social media tools at work for communication and collaboration, and – of course – the topic of information overload came up. Normally I’m asked how to deal…
6 Barriers to customer centricity
This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower/Routledge, 2012). It would be great to think that project-based organizations and PMOs would jump at the opportunity to improve stakeholder engagement and project communication by demonstrating customer centricity (not sure what that is in the context of project management?…
What Project Managers really need to know about leadership
This is a guest post by Martin Webster from The Lazy Leader. Search for project management training on Google and you’ll find lots of courses on the topic. Many refer to APMP, MSP®, PRINCE2® or even agile project management. What most have in common is an emphasis on project management accreditation, project planning, risk management,…