Overtime Overload: How the Power Shift is Changing US Work Hours
How many hours of unpaid overtime are worked in your state? Check our interactive map.
Case studies
Here’s a collection of case studies, first person accounts and experiences from senior project managers to inspire you.
Project Management Survey Results
What’s life like for project managers? This survey reveals the stress of the job.
The challenges of IT Project Management, with Dave Gordon
In 2012, I went to Las Vegas for the Pink Elephant ITSM conference. I took some time out of the conference to meet Dave Gordon, author and the project management expert behind The Practicing IT Project Manager website, which has sadly since been taken offline as I believe Dave has now retired. We discussed IT…
What George Orwell Can Teach Us About Project Management
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about.” George Orwell George Orwell’s essay, Politics and the English Language, is the last essay in his wonderful Penguin Book called Why I Write. In the essay, he castigates writers of his time for using ready-made phrases…
Why I’ve Lost My Way As A Project Manager
In this very personal post I explain how I’ve lost my way as a project manager, what I’m doing about it and what is going to change.
The Frog Project: Saving wildlife one bucket at a time
In 2012, Helen Mason stood outside her home and looked at the road. Every day there were more frogs and toads that hadn’t made it to the other side. The increasing numbers of dead amphibians made her feel that the local population of frogs and toads needed a helping hand to cross the road. So…
Do Women Make The Best Project Managers?
This is a guest post by Michelle Symonds, on behalf of Parallel Project Training. Clearly, men and women are different and deal with situations differently in the workplace. The skills that they naturally excel at rarely coincide and it is the innate talents of women that help to make them better project managers than men….
15 Tested & Practical Tips from Women in Project Management
On International Women’s Day I wanted to share some tips from the fabulous women in project management whom I have interviewed on this blog. Here are 15 amazing career tips that will help you build your career.
A shopping guide for a project management Christmas
Have a very merry project management Christmas with this shopping guide for project managers and your team members.
Why are people leaving project management?
Why are people leaving project management? And what’s life like if you decide to quit?
Project Management in Healthcare
Learn more about what project management in healthcare is like in this interview with Nada Abandah.
3 Ways to Improve Life for Women in Project Management
Here are 3 things you can do to create an environment where closing the gender pay gap for women in project management will seem possible.