While I was researching my book, Customer-Centric Project Management, I came across a piece of research in the Project Management Journal about women’s leadership skills. ‘Project Management Leadership Behaviors and Frequency of Use by Female Project Managers’ by Charlotte Neuhauser, PMP, looks at what women think are the most important leadership characteristics and then whether…
In this webinar for PMI Phoenix Chapter, I talk about how to reframe your work and stay on top of your To Do list with creative strategies for managing everything — even when it feels like everything is a priority. Project managers are busier than ever. We need smart tactics for workload management and different…
A business analyst should be the project manager’s greatest partner. Learn how to leverage the skills and competencies of a business analyst on your project team to get a successful result and a more streamlined implementation.
Learn 10 new time management tips to help you stay organised and focused even when everything is a priority at work. These ideas help me be productive and avoid burnout. Find out how to create a schedule that works, plan your tasks and squeeze every last moment out of your time so you have more of it for relaxing, family, and leisure!
In this article, we’ll look at what is different about change management now, how change management is defined, and why it is worth investing your time and effort into doing change management.
Learn how to maintain a positive, cheerful attitude when working with team members or stakeholders who cast doubt on the project.
If you need to buy things for your project, you know that shipping takes time and money. And delivery costs are often ‘forgotten’ in project budgets.
Thankfully, there’s a ton of methods that you can use to save on these costs. Take a look
Here are some free and paid resources that you might find useful to help you keep your projects and teams moving forward, wherever you find yourself based over the coming weeks.
Find out how to health check your projects in this interview with Peter Taylor (The Lazy Project Manager).
Learn more about social project management and how collaboration on projects is affected by the social tools we have available to us. I interview Peter Taylor, otherwise known as The Lazy Project Manager, to understand how we can balance collaboration with the centralised governance required in order to deliver successful projects in today’s workplace.
Check out my GanttPRO review to find out if this Gantt chart software is right for you. Also includes a mini tutorial.
Leading Effective Virtual Teams is one of the harder books I have had to review, but one of the easiest to read. It’s very practical, and the format makes it possible to dip in to get some advice on what’s bothering your team wherever you are in the project management life cycle. Read the whole review here.