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Time spent in such meetings is only wasted if they are unproductive and don’t have any actionable outcome. Learn about how to improve the efficiency of your meetings in 4 simple steps. Proper preparation and follow up will help you streamline your meetings.
Take a page from Agile and have better, more efficient meetings with your team, even virtual ones. You can learn how to here.
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.
Learn how to maintain a positive, cheerful attitude when working with team members or stakeholders who cast doubt on the project.
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!
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.
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…
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…
“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…
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…