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What will the future of project management bring? I review Advances in Project Management, a book edited by renowned academic Darren Dalcher. Let’s look at what we can expect in the future and some of the project management trends we are seeing today.
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Learn what managing stakeholders is really like and why the training courses don’t tell you what you need to know in this expert interview with Roger Joby. Roger is co-author of A Practical Guide to Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders from Gower.
I’m often asked questions about people’s career paths that I simply can’t answer. Find out why I refuse to answer questions with what the person hopes to hear, and why it’s better for their career longer term that I do. These are the answers to difficult career questions that you didn’t want to hear.
Learn about the biggest challenge facing project managers worldwide, but especially in the UK. The choice of professional bodies, credentials and certificates makes it difficult for individuals and employers to know where to turn for advice and information. What are we going to do about it? Answers on a postcard please!
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Have you thought about managing project stakeholders as if they were customers of a complex sale? Mario Henrique Trentim has. He explains how you can ‘do’ stakeholder engagement in his book in order to get a more successful project outcome.
Find out how to do user story mapping on your next project. Learn the benefits and how to get everyone engaged with this simple technique for understanding project scope.
Find out what PMO leaders and senior managers can learn from urgent and unexpected projects, and what lessons you can apply to your project management today to prepare for future crises.
Projects are not very good at integrating long term strategy because they are short term endeavours. This is the trouble with many disconnects between the strategists and the people who actually approve the work against this year’s targets, and it’s especially true of sustainability which is a long term thing. Learn more about sustainability and how you can incorporate it in your projects.
Learn why managers don’t give feedback and what you should be doing to improve your team’s performance. This book review of The Feedback Imperative will help you improve how you talk to your teams.
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.
This is a guest post by Jason Westland. Some links are affiliate links. At the end of 2013 on this blog, I made three predictions for the future of online software. This is one area of project management that is evolving at a rapid pace, and I wanted to call out the trends I was…
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“If we spend 90 percent of our time on communication, it makes sense to have a method to figure out if we are spending out time wisely and, if we are not, what we can do to improve communication,” writes Mark Phillips in his book, Reinventing Communication. That sounds sensible, so I was keen to…