The Benefits of Agile Approach to Meetings
Take a page from Agile and have better, more efficient meetings with your team, even virtual ones. You can learn how to here.
Delivering a project
How to get work done and execute your plan.
How to Use a Project Decision Log
Learn how to use a decision log template to use in all your meetings and on all projects. Easily record who made what decision when and link to where you can find more information (just in case you forget what was said).
50 Quick Project Management Tips
No suprises, spend time on contract management and other great tips for an easier life as a project manager. These are the things you’ll wish you had remembered when the project starts to go wobbly. Thanks to Jim Hurst for sharing the list.
How to maintain a positive attitude about work
Learn how to maintain a positive, cheerful attitude when working with team members or stakeholders who cast doubt on the project.
How to Create A Checklist to Speed Up Tasks in 3 Easy Steps
Here’s how to create a checklist in 3 easy steps – then you can use it to speed up repetitive tasks. And you can use this technique in your personal life as well as at work!
3 Things That Stop You Making the Right Decision
Are one of these things stopping you from making the right decisions? Chris Cook helps us by taking a look at the philosophy of decision making.
If You are Going to Fail, Fail Fast
Sometimes at work mistakes are made and projects fail. If you think that’s going to happen, hurry up and get the mistakes over! This article explains why it’s important not to dwell on failure and to get on with new initiatives.
Rescuing failing projects: an interview with Todd Williams
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…
Project Meetings: 3 Steps to Maximize Efficiency
This is a guest post by Kathlika Thomas, head writer for the IT Project Blog. Impromptu project meetings are easy enough to schedule and can be useful, especially for getting quick responses from a client or from a technical resource when needed. However, ad hoc sessions can be time wasters, too. More often than not, the wrong people…
Complexity in mega IT projects
“Everyone thinks they are the big boss,” says Laura Aziz. “Everyone thinks they are managing the others.” It’s one of the complexities that Laura is managing as part of putting the IT systems into a massive 7-star hospital in the Middle East: complete with wifi, electronic mediccal records and video conferencing. It’s a multi-year, multi-phase…
Tackling the issues of cross-border projects
This is the last in a 3-part series about managing cross-cultural and international teams. Missed the earlier posts? Read the first bit here, and the second bit here.The biggest issues for international projects are cultural understanding and communication. The former isn’t something that can be neatly tackled by a software package. It relies on the…