Why Projects Need Stories
Find out why you should be telling stories at work. Learn how they can engage your team more effectively and how stories are very similar to status reporting.
Latest Project Management Articles
UK PM: Challenges and Celebrations
Find out how project management in the UK has changed and why the 2012 Olympics was a turning point for the profession. What do British project managers have to be proud of and how do we address the challenges of fragmented professional representation?
10 Ways to Present your Projects to Stakeholders
Find out how to communicate your project to stakeholders with these 10 tips and ideas. Better communication results in better engagement and ultimately more successful outucomes.
Are Your Project Communications Lost in Translation?
Pete Bennett of the UK’s leading business and professional translation company London Translations examines the challenges businesses must overcome to avoid ‘lost in translation’ moments as a new generation joins Britain’s workforce.
Successful Project Governance: The Richard Heaslip interview
Author Richard Heaslip shares his expert views on how project governance leads to successful projects. Find out what’s next for the future of project governance and how your role as a project leader can influence your projects.
20 Resources to Make Your Projects Easier
Every project manager has resources and tools that they use to simplify their projects. Here are 20 resources that I use to make it easier to manage my projects.
Social Media on Projects: 5 Common Mistakes
There continues to be debate around how best to implement social media and collaboration tools on projects. Learn about the common mistakes made when implementing collaboration and social media tools on projects. Set your tools up to help you manage projects.
Michel Dion on Project Leadership [Interview]
Author and leadership expert Michel Dion shares his views on leading for project managers. Find out when leadership starts to become a career essential.
Women in IT Awards: the results
The inaugural Women in IT Awards were held in London on Thursday and I’d been nominated, with my colleague, for work on a large IT transformation project at Spire Healthcare (the project forms the major case study in my book, Customer-Centric Project Management, This photo is of us just before dinner was served. It was…
Predicting the State of Online PM Software: Was Jason Westland Right?
This is a guest post by Jason Westland. Some links are affiliate links. At the end of 2013 on this blog, I made three predictions for the future of online software. This is one area of project management that is evolving at a rapid pace, and I wanted to call out the trends I was…
Top Tips for Breaking into Project Management
“What advice do you have for project management students fresh out of school who want to break into the discipline?” That’s what Geoff Crane asked me, and other project managers, so he could compile our top tips for his students. I found it quite difficult to come up with some tips because there are so…
15 Communication Hacks to try in 2015
Want to get ahead with your project communications this year? Here are 15 hacks to try in the coming months. 1. Use a milestone tracker The milestone tracker I use is a simple Excel spreadsheet. It lists the milestones in one column, organised by project phase. It also includes the name of the person responsible,…