How To Help Your Team Manage Project Risk
Here’s how project managers can help their teams manage risk effectively, so that everyone benefits from effective risk management.
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.
7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers
Learn why ethics in project management is important and how to make sure you are working in an ethical way.
How To Solve Issues The Sherlock Holmes Way
Find out why resolving issues on projects is like the work Sherlock Holmes does in the Conan Doyle stories. Learn how you can use the techniques of the great detective to sort out problems on your projects quickly.
How to compile business requirements
How do you put together business requirements? This article explains how to get started gathering, compiling, eliciting and recording business requirements for projects. It draws on both waterfall and Agile approaches to give you practical tips for your projects.
How To Recover troubled programmes (part 2)
Are you seeing any of the problems faced by troubled programs? If so, you need a recovery plan to get your program back on track. Here’s the 5 step ESI process for getting out of trouble — I saw a webinar hosted by them and these are my notes. The whole approach assumes you have…
How To Recover troubled programmes (part 1)
There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. When a program is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. I attended ‘Managing and Saving Programs…
How to Become a Project Manager in 2022: 3 Ways to Get A Job (with examples)
Learn how to become a project manager in this article where I’ll explain three routes to entering the profession.
Understanding RAG in Project Management
Have you seen project status reports with colored boxes in different shades of green, amber, and red? Or project names written in those colors where the rest of the text is black? That’s the RAG status of the project. According to PMI, 11.4% of investment is wasted due to poor project performance. RAG reporting is…
How to Use the SCARF Framework to Manage Change on Projects
Carole Osterweil explains the SCARF model as a way understand and respond to behaviour – both from yourself and others.
How To Improve Your Projects In An Hour
Found yourself with an hour to spare? Here are 5 practical things that you can do to improve your projects in 60 minutes (or thereabouts). From getting your To Do list in order to taking photos, here’s how to do something useful with the time to keep your projects in great shape.
How to Add Projects in LinkedIn: A Step-by-Step Guide
Did you know that you can add projects to your LinkedIn profile? Yes, you can add a different section to your LinkedIn page that talks about your professional profile in a new way: via the projects you worked on. And you definitely should. Let’s find out why and how you can use this powerful feature…
The Ultimate Guide to Getting People to Take Responsibility At Work
If you find yourself chasing your team all the time, you need to read the ultimate guide to getting people to take responsibility at work. Find out why your team aren’t taking responsibility for their own tasks and learn how to help them step up. These tips will help you develop your team and set everyone up for success.