20 Resources to Make Your Projects Easier
Every project manager has resources and tools that they use to simplify their projects. Here are 20 resources that I use to make it easier to manage my projects.
Productivity
Tips on how to be more productive at work. Learn time management and task management for improved productivity and keeping your projects on track.
Can you really manage with just 5 milestones?
“A perfect project plan for regular, light-touch steering should contain no more than five milestones,” writes Graham Allcott in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. “Too often, milestones become micro-management or seem to provide complication and confusion rather than clarity. So in each of your projects, you should look for between one and…
5 Tips for Managing Information Overload
These 5 tips will have you managing your workload and creating your perfect work/life integration. Find out how to deal with constant stream of information in your job. Learn how to manage your interruptions for work/life balance.
Book Review: Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More
“When you’re in content focus, you load a project into your brain and do everything related to that project,” says Stever Robbins, in his book Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More. “If you’re writing a report in content focus mode, you might spend the day writing, researching, calling people strictly about…
Villanova Friday, Week 6: Team Productivity
This week I had two weeks of lectures to listen to on the Maximizing IS/IT Team Effectiveness course I am taking with Villanova University. Given a busy day job, this was a challenge. So much for my week off last week. This week it has been all about managing teams in the most effective way….
Villanova Friday, Week 2: Personal Productivity
Last week, I started the Maximizing IS/IT Team Effectiveness course with Villanova University. The online course has a weekly live session, but it’s held in the middle of my night, so I’m not able to attend. The sessions are recorded, so this week I listened to the transcript of the first chat. It was a…
Can we use Facebook to manage projects?
“What about Facebook for project managers?” is a question I’m asked a lot when I talk to people about social media tools for project managers. As you know, I’m a big believer in the benefits that social media tools can offer project managers. But when I’m asked about Facebook I always say that I don’t…
Social Media and Project Management: a waste of time?
In this video, you’ll go behind the scenes at the podcast I recorded earlier this year with Paul Naybour from Parallel Project Training, Lindsay Scott from Arras People and How to Manage a Camel and Owain Wilson from the Association for Project Management. This is an extract of our morning as we were experimenting with…
How Social Media Changes Project Management
Today, Andrew Filev, who writes the fab Project Management 2.0 blog, and I are swapping posts. We agreed on the loose topic of social media and project management. Andrew has a great deal of knowledge on enterprise 2.0 and social media, so I’m glad to have him as a guest author today. You can read…
Save Time: Tidy Your Desk!
10 Easy tips for keeping your workplace tidy and making you more productive. Put these into practice and you’ll soon be saving time each day and feel more positive about your space.
How to buy a cocktail dress in 20 minutes
You will need: One department store One friend wearing flat shoes (ideally someone with better dress sense than you) The underwear you will be wearing under the dress Optional: The shoes you will be wearing. Cocktail dresses are short, so any height of heel will be OK. If you are adapting this method for a…