I can do my project communications work for The Otobos Group from anywhere but when I work for my employer I sometimes need to travel. Nap time is about 9am and it feels weird to be north of Coventry before my son is due for a sleep. We don’t often have meetings in Birmingham and…
Angel Berniz, Director of ProjectManagers.org, spoke at Nordic Project Zone. He’s talking about ISO 21500, the new project management standard. I caught up with him to find out why this new standard is important and how it will impact project managers. Angel, tell me why the new ISO 21500 standard is important for project management?…
Adrian Dooley, director of APMG and originally a construction project manager before he started helping other people do their projects better, was another one of the Conference: Zero presenters last month. He was reflecting on the APM’s vision of a world where all projects succeed, and his main point was that we need culture change…
Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President – Performance Management Development at Statoil, spoke about a new way to budget, forecast, lead and manage at Nordic Project Zone. I talked to him to find out more about the ideas he’ll be presenting. You can read the first part of this interview here. Bjarte, what you are doing at…
Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President – Performance Management Development at Statoil, is speaking at Nordic Project Zone. I caught up with him to find out more about the ideas he’ll be presenting. Bjarte, what is Beyond Budgeting? Beyond Budgeting is a coherent set of leadership and management principles. The name is actually misleading. The purpose is…
One of the themes for this year’s International Project Management Day (which is today) is environmental projects that protect or preserve the environment. I don’t work on installing wind farms or developing solar energy products, but I have recently taken part in Conference: Zero, which was a low-carbon conference. Conference: Zero was put on by…
What are the benefits of project governance? This infographic shares 6 reasons why project governance is a good thing for projects and project managers.
Ulrik Moes, Project Director at pharma company Novo Nordisk, gave a presentation at Conference: Zero a fortnight ago about his ideas for empowering project teams. Ulrik has worked all over the world and has spent the last 8 years managing IT projects. His talk focused on tools for empowerment and the management of virtual teams….
Andrew Hubbard has been editor of Project Magazine since taking the helm in 2012. The magazine is over 38 years old and started life as a newsletter called Bulletin. Today it’s got a circulation of over 22,000 each month, mainly to APM members but it’s also available to anyone who has an interest in project…
Work and making baby food do not mix. This was the scene when I tried to cook apple purée and do some work at the same time. When I sat down at the computer I said to myself that I only had 10 minutes – but an hour later I wondered if one of our…
This article is part of the #pmFlashBlog. Project management. It’s what I’ve been doing my whole life, some of the time without realising. It’s how I planned my studies. It’s how I planned my wedding. It’s how I survived relocating abroad for work, and it’s how I stayed sane moving house with a 6 month…
Work is hard, but not for the reasons you might think. I feel that I have settled back in well; I believe I’m doing a good job. And, despite waking most mornings at 4am to settle my son and then catching another 90 minutes of sleep before spoon-feeding him mashed banana for breakfast, I’m not…