Project management articles, updates and reviews from Elizabeth Harrin.
Financial compliance isn’t just the CFO’s problem. If you’re managing projects in a regulated sector, overseeing vendor contracts, or running procurement cycles, you’re already operating in compliance territory, whether you realize it or not. The challenge is that most project management training glosses over the financial governance layer. You’ll learn about budget tracking, earned value…
What are the key challenges when working on multiple projects simultaneously? How do you prioritize work when everything is important? I asked 570 project managers these questions (and more) to find out what life is like in 2024 for project managers leading multiple projects, to follow on from my research on the same topic in…
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…
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…
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…
Have you ever thought about where your career is going as a project manager, or why some people seem to be on the fast-track while others struggle to advance their careers? Getting on in project management can feel difficult, especially when you realise that the training course you did hasn’t given the answers for managing…
We surveyed 220 project managers to better understand what it’s like to work in project delivery. In this original research, we share some brand new project management statistics.
Here’s a round-up of deals on project management things that you might find useful, especially if you are looking for cheap Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification training or professional development options.
Hello 2016! You came round quickly. Surely the last time I looked it was October? Anyway, now 2016 has arrived we can properly celebrate my blogging anniversary! Happy 10th Birthday to A Girl’s Guide to Project Management! I can’t believe this blog has been going so long, and I’m delighted to be able to be…
The UK doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving but that doesn’t mean I’m not grateful to those people who have helped me improve my blog this year. Here’s a short video of thanks and a shout out to a few special people who have made a big difference to my blog and my company in 2015. And thanks to you, for reading!
The inaugural Women in IT Awards were held in London on Thursday and I’d been nominated, with my colleague, for work on a large IT transformation project at Spire Healthcare (the project forms the major case study in my book, Customer-Centric Project Management, This photo is of us just before dinner was served. It was…