Managing stakeholders doesn’t always go to plan. These insights from author Jake Holloway will help you better prepare to work with difficult people on projects. Learn why your team doesn’t always act in the project’s best interest and what you can do about it.
How can you best engage your team so they do their best work? Learn 4 techniques that work in this article.
Leadership makes a huge difference to project success. Find out why and what you can do to boost your own leadership skills, whatever level you are in the organisation. Author Sarah Coleman shares her tips for career growth in this interview.
Answers to questions from a recent subscriber’s only webinar on collaboration tools in project management that I hosted.
I interviewed Jordan Husney of Parabol to find out more about the state of Agile software tools and what it takes to launch one.
Are you looking for a tool to run retrospective meetings? In this Parabol review, I’ll share the pros and cons of the popular tool – it could be the right product for your agile team. Summary Product: Parabol Cost and plans: Free plan for up to 2 teams Hosting model: Cloud and on-premise Languages: The…
This is a guest article by Christine Unterhitzenberger. Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. This often causes stress and it’s challenging for project managers to find ways to deal with it. A recent study by Dr Clara Cheung and colleagues found that project…
Gary Lloyd sent me a copy of his book Business Leadership for IT Projects to read and review. Here are my takeaways and thoughts about it.
Author Louise M. Worsley has 6 principles of stakeholder engagement laid out in her book Stakeholder-led Project Management. Here is my take on them.
Data taxonomy is a great way to find the data that you need in project management software tools. This how to guide will show you how to use it.
There are many factors in what makes a good project manager. Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation, shares an except from his book Everything’s a Project: 70 Lessons from Successful Project-Driven Organisations about what he learned from assessments.
Dr. Mike Clayton gives some great advice on managing group think and risk at work in this guest article.