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Why Scheduling Mustn’t be Allowed to Become an Extinct Science

After spending the past decade or more dedicated to project management, I noticed during the economic downturn last year a very surprising trend: despite the significant reduction in the number of major Capex projects being sanctioned and funded, the n…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |

Project Risk: Is It All Bad?

No one would disagree that managing risk within a project is not a good idea. Risk Management is an essential part of any programme or project and can vastly contribute to successful delivery. Where it can and does go wrong is when there is an over-rel…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |
 

Using Twitter for Project Management

Using Twitter for Project Management
By Toby Elwin
In this article I want to introduce Twitter to manage projects. Why Twitter? Twitter is a great communication and community collaboration tool and once a project starts, 90% of a project manager’…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |

Myriad Inc.: Industry Leading It Project Management Maturity Models And More

Clients of Myriad Inc. can choose from a thorough catalog of services that suit their business’ specific requirements.

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |
 

Do you have questions about project management?

I am doing a few podcast shows right now, and we just released new episodes yesterday for both of them. Here comes another.

I am starting a new podcast with a question & answer format….

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[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |

Stay Focused on the End Project Management Templates

From a daily standpoint, the Project Manager is interested in completing tasks, delivery status, communication and updates and getting to the end point of the day with both the delivery team and the c…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |
 

Influencing, Persuading & Selling in Project Management

Project managers need soft skills and effective techniques to secure approval and gain support from stakeholders and commitment from their team. The foundation is an understanding of what business benefits the executives value.

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |

Managing Project Issues

Managing Project Issues (#29 in the Hut Introduction to Project Management)
By JISC infoNet
It is difficult to find a good formal definition of an Issue. An issue is basically anything that might affect the project meeting its goals. It is perhaps easi…

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |

My first project management book: now available!

Thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged me through the process of putting my first book out there.

I’m happy to say it is now for sale!

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[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |

Project briefing – sponsors must do better!

That was the response from participants on a project management workshop.
How did this come about? We have an activity where I give them a brief. By brief I mean some background information about a project. This led to a an interesting debate with a su…

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management |