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.
Presenting in meetings or to your boss is always a bit nerve-wracking. Here are 10 tips for giving a fantastic work presentation.
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…
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.
I shared some really personal issues about my role as a project manager and so many of you reached out to let me know that I am not alone. Here is some of your thoughts and advice.
Short on time? Pick one book to supplement your PMI-ACP studies. I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. Are you aiming to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)®? The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as…
Short on time? The best PMI-ACP exam prep book is PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths. You’re here because you are planning to take your PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)® exam. Well, you’re in the right place! As well as a PMI-ACP training course, the most successful students also include a study guide in their…
Find out how I manage project stakeholder communications on my projects. These are my tried-and-tested techniques. Are there ideas here that you could use on your projects? Let me know if you put my tips into action!
This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower/Routledge, 2012). It would be great to think that project-based organizations and PMOs would jump at the opportunity to improve stakeholder engagement and project communication by demonstrating customer centricity (not sure what that is in the context of project management?…
Business analysis has come of age. If change programs are to be successful, then problem solving, stakeholder engagement, business cases and situational analysis are essential. So comes in the BA role to “challenge, lead and influence” according to Debra Paul in the Foreword to this book. Edited by Penny Pullan and James Archer, Business Analysis…
THE REBEL’S GUIDE TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT Manage your projects with more confidence and less stress. Hello, Rebels! I’m Elizabeth Harrin and I teach people how to manage multiple projects and still leave the office on time. I’m an author, trainer, mentor, and APM Fellow. I support professional and accidental project managers with the difficult stuff…
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What if you could reduce your meeting time, avoid spending hours putting together reports or typing up minutes, and truly work smarter? What if creating a pack of status reports went from 5 days of effort to 10 seconds? (Yes, that’s what happened to one of Fluid’s real customers.) Fluid is award-winning PPM software that…