Did you know that you spend upwards of 11 hours a day consuming information? In The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, Clay A. Johnson argues that much of what we consume – in information terms – is as bad for us as junk food. It’s a really interesting idea. The general concept is…
This is a video of Todd Williams, talking about his book, Rescue the Problem Project, and how project managers can manage failing projects. It was filmed on location at the PMI Global Congress in Fort Worth, and we are sitting in the glass atrium of the convention centre. You’ll have to excuse the sun coming…
“I’m project managing our street party,” a friend said on the phone last week. “We’ve got a team meeting next Saturday.” “And how much work will actually get done at this team meeting?” I asked her. “Ha! You know me so well….” I could imagine it: neighbours gathering in her spacious lounge, some early evening…
Here’s the transcript for this video, as sometimes the audio is hard to hear. Elizabeth: I’ve come to the Charing Cross hotel in the middle of London. It’s just raining and I’m here for an Association for Project Management Learning Legacy event about the Olympics. What we’ll be looking at this evening – I hope…
Project-related work and the number of project-related jobs are growing too quickly for our approaches to professionalism to keep up. You don’t have to look to hard to see that the world of work is becoming more focused on projects. I don’t think it’s just project professionals who would say that – business leaders are…
A bit of bright weather and suddenly the pavements are full of people waving clipboards, trying to get you to stop at the end of a busy day and donate to charity. While the causes are always good, the method of extracting direct debit details from passers by is low-tech, and if you are trying…
This is a guest post by Jon Swain, President of Ten Six Consulting. Strong project sponsorship is critical to ensuring that your project is a success. One of the roles of a sponsor is to champion the project and the project team. This includes making sure the project gets the recognition and resources it requires….
According to Chrismon Nofsinger, there are 4 steps on the journey to being a great leader, but most people only get halfway. “Leadership is about facilitating the output of others and giving them recognition,” he writes in his new book, The Shift from One to Many: A Practical Guide to Leadership. This is a great…
Last week I wrote about some research from the Project Management Journal by Charlotte Neuhauser, PMP. It looked at the leadership behaviours valued by women and how frequently we apply them. Neuhauser’s research also asked female project managers to report on how they thought they were perceived by men. Here’s what her study had to…
I worked with ProjectsAtWork in 2012 to research and analyse good practices for making Agile successful with distributed teams. Agile isn’t the first approach you would think of to manage a project with team members spread all over the world, but actually it is a really common approach. Why people use Agile with a distributed…
In this video, Richard Gordon from Microsoft discusses the role of SharePoint, bemoans the fact companies don’t upgrade to the latest versions or use the full functionality and muses on the future of project management software. This video was filmed at the Project Management in the Collaborative Age round table discussion hosted by Microsoft and…
Most of the business and project management books I review are written by authors outside the UK, so it was a pleasure to read about companies and scenarios I know well in a UK-focused book. In The Language of Leaders: How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results, Kevin Murray has interviewed 60…