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.
Delivering a project
How to get work done and execute your plan.
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!
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…