10 Tips for Presenting at Work
Presenting in meetings or to your boss is always a bit nerve-wracking. Here are 10 tips for giving a fantastic work presentation.
Skills
Learn the key project management skills that you need to lead successful projects at work.
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 agile is your team (and what you can do about it!)
This is a guest article by David Daly. Did you know, one survey found that the most common reason to adopt agile is to be able to deliver products more quickly? Yet the same survey found that 75% of people did not believe their organisation had a culture that supported agile ways of working. This…
My worst presentation ever (and 3 public speaking tips)
Learn the three most important things for giving presentations, and read about how I failed spectacularly at one of them during my worst presentation ever. Believe me, I do things differently now!
What Project Managers really need to know about leadership
This is a guest post by Martin Webster from The Lazy Leader. Search for project management training on Google and you’ll find lots of courses on the topic. Many refer to APMP, MSP®, PRINCE2® or even agile project management. What most have in common is an emphasis on project management accreditation, project planning, risk management,…
Capacity Planning: The Secret to Successful Projects
Learn why capacity planning for project resources could be your secret weapon for ensuring an on time, low stress delivery.
Project Estimating: The Only Guide You Need
The weather is the talk of the office. The heatwave is one good reason to work long hours – at least we have air conditioning which makes life bearable. The top temperatures are water-cooler subjects: is it 34 degrees outside or 33? Frankly it’s too hot, but it has made me realize one thing: I…
Project Forecasting 101
William W. Davis, forecasting superhero, joins us again to help explain project forecasting and how to make it easier.
The Ultimate Guide to Project Dependencies and Constraints
Demystify project dependencies and constraints with this comprehensive guide. Learn why they are important and how they relate to your project.
The 3 Most Important Things that Define Your Project
In this guest article by Dr. Mike Clayton he explains the three things you need to define your project so that you are not managing a mess.
Project Assumptions: A Complete Guide
What happens when you are putting together your project plan and you don’t have all the answers? One way to deal with that is to use assumptions: an educated guess. An assumption is a way to simplify or otherwise fill in missing pieces of a project. Those gaps happen for a variety of reasons, and…
The 8 Levers of Change
In their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work, Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change management effort on your project to stick. They say that if your project isn’t addressing at least 4 of these elements,…