Here’s a collection of case studies, first person accounts and experiences from senior project managers to inspire you.
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 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…
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.
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…
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….
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.
Have a very merry project management Christmas with this shopping guide for project managers and your team members.
Why are people leaving project management? And what’s life like if you decide to quit?
Learn more about what project management in healthcare is like in this interview with Nada Abandah.
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.
An interview with Rachel Mata, Lead Project Manager at Instructor Brandon in Bogatá, Colombia.
There’s plenty written on why women don’t get the top jobs in project leadership – but there’s an assumption there that they want those jobs. I know many women do want to take senior jobs, and we do need to work at eradicating the reasons that cause talented, dedicated, knowledgeable women to miss out on…