How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager
So you’ve just been handed a project to manage? You’re an accidental project manager! These tips will help you get started.
How To
Project management ‘how to’ guides from Elizabeth Harrin. Want to learn how to get something done? Check out these guides for a step-by-step overview.
The 3 Steps to Take When Failure is Not an Option
Our expectation for consistent, immediate and high-quality service is at a level never before seen in human history. But can we ever truly live up to these incredibly high standards? Can we ever truly score “100%”?
How to Manage a Team Member With A Negative Attitude
Learn how to recognise a negative attitude at work and how to manage the situation. These tips will help you turn around a difficult colleague.
How To Communicate Effectively When You’ve Got No Time For Meetings
Learn how to communicate effectively with your team when you don’t have time for meetings. These tips will make it easier to get your messages out there!
5 Golden Rules for Writing Good Project Documentation
Ues these 5 project documentation tips to make the document writing process easier.
Ladder and Hot Air Balloon Scheduling
Project managers tend to live or die by their schedules. They shape decisions, priorities and stakeholder engagements. We feel good when the schedules give us confidence. We feel nervous when they change a lot. We feel out of control when the schedule is clearly fictional with no chance of ever being delivered. It’s no surprise…
A Framework for Managing Multiple Projects
How do you start to get your work under control when you are juggling several projects at once? That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The starting point is knowing how all the different parts of your workload fit together so you can manage them in an efficient way. And do…
3 Reasons You Need the Skills to Manage Multiple Projects
Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work (and still leave the office on time!) Why do you need to learn how to manage multiple projects? That’s what we’re looking at in this article. I’ll share…
Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)
Have you been asked to pull together a strategy planning meeting agenda? And you’re wondering what other people do in their strategic planning sessions… I’ve been there! In this article, I’ll explain what a strategic planning meeting can cover and share a sample agenda you can customize for your strategy sessions. Strategy planning doesn’t just…
How to Manage Multiple Projects Webinar
In this webinar we discuss tips and strategies for managing multiple projects. If you prefer to read, there is a transcript is below the video. Transcript: 0:03Hello everyone, can you hear me? Okay? Can you see me? I’m Elizabeth I’m going to be doing the webinar today and I know you’ve got five minutes left…
How to do Rolling Wave Planning
Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Primarily more detailed planning in…
How I learned to manage multiple projects and still leave the office on time
Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work! “There’s another project I’m just waiting to hear about,” said my sponsor. I silently groaned. I was already managing a couple of projects and while I probably could…