Last year, it was all about social media. This year’s hot new trend is gamification. What’s that, I hear you ask? It’s such a new word that my spellchecker flags it up as an error. Gamification has been around for a while. It’s the art of making work seem less like, well, work. It’s about…
This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management, co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). Let’s get some basics established. Projects must deliver value. Projects must involve stakeholders, even if that stakeholder population is made up of only one person. These two things are the premise for customer-centric project management. The third premise…
Does your project have a communications plan? It’s often something that less experienced project managers forget to do, although even experienced project managers can find themselves half way through a project without a clear communications approach. The purpose of a communications plan is to define all the people or groups who have an interest in…
General information Name: Project Portfolio Office Vendor: Project Portfolio Office Hosting options: Web hosted only Cost and plans: Up to 10 users for $49 (£32) a month. Free trial. Languages: English Currency: Feature to add your own currency symbol Basic features: building projects I found it practically impossible to get in to the software once…
General information Name: Celoxis Vendor: Celoxis Technologies Hosting options: There is a web hosted version and a version you can host yourself Cost and plans: Web-hosted version is $14.95 per user per month. An on-premise licence is $299 plus $180 per user (one-off fee). Free 30-day trial. Languages: English Currency: Feature to add your own…
This is a guest post by Neil Stolovitsky, Senior Solution Specialist at Genius. Although the fundamentals of project management are applicable across all types of project environments, the areas of emphasis can vary depending on the nature of the project you are running. Working for a PPM software vendor (Genius Inside) has its advantages in…
Do you use your own iPad or phone at work? If so, you are part of the growing trend of people who BYOD. That’s Bring Your Own Device – and it’s a trend that is affecting all industries. The problem is that corporate budgets can’t keep up with the shifts in technology. We issue everyone…
General information Name: MyProjects Lite Vendor: Avellana Software Hosting options: Web hosted Cost: Lite version for iPhone/iPad is free. The free version only allows you to create 10 tasks, which is very limiting. The full version of this app is £2.49. I couldn’t find an option to upgrade from free to paid, which means you…
Sometimes at work mistakes are made and projects fail. If you think that’s going to happen, hurry up and get the mistakes over! This article explains why it’s important not to dwell on failure and to get on with new initiatives.
Louise Hardy, infrastructure manager for the construction work for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, gave a presentation at a PMI event about the project work involved in preparing for London 2012. She said she had been involved in the programme for five and a half years and that as part of the delivery partner…
This is a guest post by Peter Richards. When considering investing in a training course for yourself, a single staff member or your team, it’s crucial to consider the applications of that course. While PRINCE2® is a carefully-accredited training course, whose original two levels of Foundation and Practitioner have attracted favourable reviews from all over…
This is a video of Todd Williams, talking about his book, Rescue the Problem Project, and how project managers can manage failing projects. It was filmed on location at the PMI Global Congress in Fort Worth, and we are sitting in the glass atrium of the convention centre. You’ll have to excuse the sun coming…