How to Get Projects From Strategy
Learn how to turn your company’s strategy into an actual project.
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Book review: Risk Happens
Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. It enables you to manage the project more effectively and work towards a smooth outcome. So what exactly is project risk…
10 Tips for being more customer-centric on your projects
Do you wish that your project stakeholders were a bit more involved, or that you knew what they were thinking? You can find out – you just have to ask them. One technique I use is to ask project stakeholders (whom I call customers, as they are the customers of the project management process) how…
3 Ways to Make Project Meetings Relevant to Everyone
Learn how to engage everyone during a meeting – and if you really can’t make that work, learn some strategies for keeping people as focused as possible while you have them in the room. These are great tips for anyone running meetings with multi-disciplinary teams.
The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors
Learn how you can work with project sponsors effectively as a project manager in this definitive guide.
How To Manage Fixed Date Projects in PRINCE2®
Learn how to manage fixed date projects in PRINCE2 with this helpful article.
How To Avoid The 4 Sins of Meetings
There are 4 meeting sins that you should definitely avoid. Gerry Lewis’s book Shine discusses what they are and how to avoid them.
What is Stakeholder-led Project Management?
I recently sat down with the book Stakeholder-led Project Management by Louise M. Worsley and wanted to share my thoughts and take-aways from her book.
Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction
Here’s an introduction to project steering groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project.
Preceden Timeline Maker Review
Software: Preceden Pricing: Free for 1 public timeline/1 user, then there is a Personal and a Business Plan Supplier: Preceden LLC Languages: The interface is in English, but you could enter event information and labels in your own language Summary: Preceden is an online time maker that creates roadmaps and visual timelines quickly. It’s a…
How To Decide What Projects To Do
Get a step-by-step guide to prioritizing and learn how to decide what projects to do in this article.
How I Manage My Day
Find out what I do in a day to try to keep my work/life balance in healthy check and fit everything in. How similar is this to what you do in a normal working day, balancing the needs of your family and your colleagues?