Sarah Coleman’s work on project leadership has been inspirational. In this interview for my Inspiring Women in Project Management series, she shares her thoughts on how leadership has changed project management forever.
Find out how one company managed to tame the chaos of disparate systems by using integrated project management tools. This case study explains how HDMZ made the shift from many, unconnected tools to one product that manages most things – and where it doesn’t manage, it interfaces. The implications for project teams have been significant!
Find out if it’s worth getting a project management tool specific to your industry. I investigate on behalf of a reader who works in the education sector. I didn’t end up recommending what I expected!
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Find out how Big Blue Digital used time tracking and project management software to increase their project profitability by almost 50%! The weird thing is, this wasn’t even hard, and it’s so easy for you to do too.
Monica Borrell is the latest woman to be profiled in my Inspiring Women in Project Management series. Find out why I think she’s an inspiration and what it takes to make the leap from PM to CEO.
Learn my tips for engaging and ‘managing’ stakeholders on a projejct. From the communication you do, to the informal chats you have about project requirements, it all counts towards relationship building. Working successfully with stakeholders is critical if you want to get a quality result at the end of your project because they are the ones that decide what quality means.
5 tips for a long and fulfilling career from women who have been there and done that. I picked up these gems of advice at a women in construction career development event that I spoke at about Imposter Syndrome.
Find out more about how to make estimating simple with this software review of Simplestimate. I weigh up the pros and cons of throwing away your spreadsheets and tell you more about my thoughts on this web-based project estimating tool. Plus there are screenshots so you can see it for yourself.
Construction project management has always been traditionally male-dominated. Lorraine Chapman talks about what life is like as a female manager in construction and the amazing projects she has worked on in this interview. Part of the Inspiring Women in Project Management series.
There are a lot of project management certifications out there. So many that it’s making it hard for project managers and HR departments to know what to look for when someone applies for a job. Jerry Ihejika has an idea about how to sort out the educational mess we are in and to bring some standardisation to what it means to be a project manager.
One of the great things about blogging for so long is that I’ve met a whole host of interesting people. I only met Jerry Ihejirika recently, via the wonders of the internet. He’s passionate about improving the quality of project management education and practice in Africa. He’s the brains behind the Project Management for Africa…