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.
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.
Learn how to engage everyone during a meeting – and if you really can’t make that work, learn some strategies for keeping people as focused as possible while you have them in the room. These are great tips for anyone running meetings with multi-disciplinary teams.
Here is a checklist of 12 things that you should do during project closure to make sure the work is wrapped up efficiently.
Learn how to manage fixed date projects in PRINCE2 with this helpful article.
There are 4 meeting sins that you should definitely avoid. Gerry Lewis’s book Shine discusses what they are and how to avoid them.
Here’s an introduction to project steering groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project.
Here are 5 tips for how you can better provide constructive criticism to your team.
In this article, we’ll look at some simple triggers to use to see if you really can carry out all the work that’s on your To Do list.
Learn how to list projects on your resume and best practices for your CV in this guide.
Get a step-by-step guide to prioritizing and learn how to decide what projects to do in this article.
This is a guest post by Dave Gordon. One of the most common causes for IT projects to slip into “troubled” status is missed requirements. In many cases, this is because the subject matter experts don’t think of all at the functional requirements at the beginning of the design stage. In other cases, technical requirements…
I’ve put together some best practices on how to organize a notebook for work and turn it into a personal planning hub.
Learn how to deal with gossip at work and how we can use it to improve productivity and solve problems.