How To Be An Estimating Superhero
Learn how to be an estimating superhero in this interview with William W. Davis of Statistical PERT. This will definitely make your job easier!
Read more from Elizabeth
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.
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.
15 Practical Tips to Improve Project Communication
Learn how to improve project communication with these tried and tested tips that will make it easier to do at the same time.
How To Pick Up A Project From Someone Else: 7 Proven Tips
Picking up a project from another project manager and not sure where to begin? Here are some tried and true tips to help you out along with a project initiation checklist.
How To Motivate Your Project Team
Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I interviewed her to find out more.
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.
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…