Project Management Survey Results 2023
The results of my 2023 project management survey are in and you can see them here.
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Interested in project management? Elizabeth Harrin is the author of several top-selling, practical guides to how to manage projects published by PMI, APM, Kogan Page and the British Computer Society.
Drawing from her own experience and plenty of case studies, surveys and research, these books are the ‘mentor on the shelf’ you need to get ahead and learn what really works when it comes to juggling your workload.
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Elizabeth Harrin reports on events and conferences in the project management world.
Elizabeth Harrin Shortlisted for Business Book Awards 2023
The highly anticipated shortlist for The Business Book Awards in partnership with Pathway Group 2023 has been announced for top business books published in 2022. Authors, publishers, and business figures gathered in London last month for the shortlist reveal party to celebrate the incredible breadth, diversity and quality of business books published last year. Now…
How I Manage My Day
Find out what I do in a day to try to keep my work/life balance in healthy check and fit everything in. How similar is this to what you do in a normal working day, balancing the needs of your family and your colleagues?
How What You Say Affects You At Work
The phrases you use affect how people see you at work and how likely you are to achieve your goals. Learn the 8 phrases to use to build a great sense of team morale and inspire the people you work with.
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…
Does social media make projects more complex?
Social media is a de facto standard for businesses these days. Brands can thrive or wither on the quality of their social media manager and some networks can be ruthless. Campaigns and tweets can stick in customers’ memories for a long time: who can forget the Colin the Caterpillar struggles? (#FreeCuthbert!) They even made it…
Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?
Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. At the…
3 Ways to Cope When Your Project Goes Off The Rails
Aaron Irizarry spoke at the Digital PM Summit about ways to cope when you have a troubled project. Here are his three ways of getting a project under control. They apply to both big and small problems.
5 Habits to ditch this year
I’m not a great one for making resolutions so this year I thought I’d take a different look at things. Instead of setting myself up for failure by making promises to do new things, I wanted to turn it on its head. Let’s look instead at the things to stop doing. Here are the 5…
Top PM 10 Articles of All Time
In celebration of a Girl’s Guide to Project Management’s anniversary I have put together a list of the top 10 articles that I have written from the last 10 years. I hope you enjoy looking back with me.
Happy Holidays!
It’s the end of the year, and I hope 2021 has been as good for you as it can have been, given all the strangeness and adaptations we’ve had to make. I hope you and your families have stayed healthy and have some fun planned for the holidays (socially-distanced if you can’t meet up). We’re…