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May 2013
April 2013
- What has pruning my hydrangea bush got to do with project management?
- The case of the missing project manager
- Who are your good project management role models?
- I've started so I’ll finish (the project) *
- Despite your best plans, what happens when things still go awry?
March 2013
- Today’s quiz question on project management is…
- Do you carry out a primary survey before starting a project?
- The demise of the training manager and the impact for project management
- How healthy are you (and your project)?
February 2013
- What are your project management reporting standards?
- Monitoring and control in projects is essential to avoid risks derailing your project
January 2013
- Will you join us? Master Class – Strategies for Project Sponsorship
- Project Management Training: Classroom vs mobile
- Are you burning out your project managers?
- Projects happen in many ways
- Come on, let’s make it compulsory.
December 2012
- Does your client keep changing their mind?
- I need that staff member and I want him NOW!
- Failed project costs taxpayers £50million
- How good are your listening skills?
November 2012
- Project sign off – do people really know what this means?
- What role do you play in this project?
- Project managers need to cope with uncertainty. What are your ideas?
- Project Sponsor; will this meet your expectations?
October 2012
- The risks were high, but the project was successful
- Do you have consistent project management?
- Your first project
- How to say no without saying no!
- The numbers simply don't stack up.
- How good is your project planning?
September 2012
- “Can you show me how to produce a Gantt chart?”
- Can The Personality Traits of a Project Manager Contribute to Project Success?
- What do you do when someone does not take responsibility?
- My Big Cry – Confronting My Limiting Factors
August 2012
- My plea to project sponsors
- The 7 deadly sins of project management
- Lost, but we reached our destination. Like your projects?
July 2012
- Olympic security debacle - lack of controls?
- The new project team member - 3 views
- Where is your project Gateway review?
- Will you visit this finished project? Great views.
- 360 assessment for project staff
June 2012
- We don’t need project management training, we have PM software!
- A different approach to developing project management skills
- How much do you really know about your project?
- Do you Deliver?
- Lots of project activity but nothing to show for it
- We should make it mandatory for ALL projects!
May 2012
- Why don't they improve project delivery II?
- Why don’t they improve project delivery?
- Out of tiny acorns….. mighty projects grow!
- Project management terminolgy - what a turn off
- How do you motivate people?
- Can you keep a promise?
- How good is your project monitoring and control? What effect does it have on your projects?
April 2012
- Where's your project & programe management strategy
- Crossing the line and learning from it
- Boat race stopped - what risks have you missed?
- What do your customers say about your project management services?
March 2012
- Project estimating – optimistic planning bias strikes again
- Harry Potter station refurbished – platform 9¾ set to stay
- I just do it – why do I need any processes for my projects?
- Do you search for development needs of project managers?
- Are your cost saving projects saving money?
- The case of the ill project manager
February 2012
- Training is like coffee - you need the right blend!
- Can you help us please?
- My staff need training but I can’t spare them from work…
- The effect of project and portfolio management on share price
- Who ‘owns’ project management in your company?
January 2012
- How effective are your Project Boards
- Leadership development + project management training = real difference
- What are your project management New Year’s resolutions?
- Clients want practical project management training….
- The real value of project management paperwork.
December 2011
- The definitive guide of who should go on a project management course
- "Great news; project budget increased!"
November 2011
- Project management methodologies – they are only guidelines
- Risk Happens – Managing Risk & Avoiding Failure in Business Projects
- Brasington's Laws of Project Management
- Bring out your dead (projects)
- No wonder change management projects are so difficult
October 2011
- Too many projects - identifying priorities helps
- A project is like an aeroplane.
- How well do you motivate your project team?
- You cannot deliver this project early.
- Put yourself into 2nd position in your project
September 2011
- How can you really develop project management skills?
- Introduction to Project Management course - Free!!
- Costs Rocket for Passport Office Project
- Deliver your projects early by .....wait for it..not delivering
- Could you turn a bus around here?
- Where will you be on Tuesday?
- It couldn't happen in a project...surely not?
- The Perfect Project
- The Project Management Conundrum
- Change management - it makes money (for others)
August 2011
- Work breakdown structure - HOW?
- Is it time for CPD for the Project Management Profession?
- The Campaign for Real Project Sponsors
- My projects suffer from resource theft II
July 2011
- How effective are your project teams?
- Do we really learn from our project successes or errors?
- This weeks' BIG question.
- How project managers can narrow the skills gap
- How do we increase the probability of success for a project?
- Do we all need Brilliant Time Management for our projects?
- Which projects are priority projects?
- This Week's BIG Question
June 2011
- Have you ever thought about templating your project?
- Where we make most money and project management change control
- This week's BIG question
- 51 and 3 – two key numbers in project communications
- This weeks BIG question
May 2011
- My projects suffer from resource theft.
- This weeks BIG question!
- Does your company have its own project management house style? *
- This weeks BIG question.
- How happy are your project stakeholders?
- Briefing project managers is a skill – who’s trained for it?
- This weeks BIG question
- Did you carry out your risk assessment Ron?
- Use e-learning to develop your project management skills
April 2011
- This weeks BIG question
- How to make your project management training more effective
- Are your projects producing anything?
- This weeks BIG question!
- How to make project management courses more effective?
- This weeks question…
- How to make your project management training more effective
- Project management problems – it’s those stakeholders
March 2011
- Who is your project architect?
- How much does PowerPoint add to Project Management courses?
- How good are you at influencing?
- The one thing missing in projects – time to manage them
February 2011
- Annual survey on project management – a good read
- There are no risks in this project!
- Project minutes v project action points…which is your choice?
- This project has no cost; no budget!
January 2011
- Can I please check; are you my project sponsor?
- Can you manage yourself; how effective are you?
- What’s your project management capacity?
- I don’t know where to start with this project.
- What would you do if….?
December 2010
- How well do you communicate in projects?
- Project management training – identify the key players
- Your project plan needs detail
- End of stage project reviews – lost opportunity?
- Show me how to say no & the link with triple constraints
- 7 project management wonders of the world
- Stakeholders, love ‘em or hate ‘em – you still need to manage them effectively
November 2010
- Use CHAMPS2 to bring about transformational change
- Forming your own project management Academy
- Project managers, you have a lot of responsibility
- Do you have gates in your project?
- You should reduce project quality to save time and money
- Third Sector Project Management
- How effective is your project team?
- What’s the point of a project kick off meeting?
- We need more sex in project management.
October 2010
- Can you live without mobile communications?
- The project crept forward, very slowly – because of the changes!
- Can you have too much feedback?
- Project structure; it killed the project
- So, what are we delivering?
- These business benefits do not stack up
- What paperwork do you use in projects?
- There are simply too many projects in companies today!
September 2010
- Auditing your projects to deliver success
- Will the grand prix go ahead? Another failure of project governance?
- Will the games go ahead? A failure of governance?
- The case for the prosecution is….
- Project Managers need to delegate
- What project benefits really mean for the project manager
August 2010
- We do not need a business case.
- Let’s bring back the real meaning of “deadline” in projects…
- Where’s my whistle?
- We’re only brought in at the project planning stage
July 2010
June 2010
- It’s your job to protect project scope
- Slash and burn as £2billion of projects cut!
- How do you set project roles? Leeds Rhinos show the way
- Reduce optimistic planning bias in your projects
- Do you keep records of project estimates?
May 2010
- How do YOU avoid project overspend?
- I want you to cut the number of projects? Do you know how & which ones?
- Developing your project skills beyond training courses
- I need to be able to control my project
- You need to be well organised to be an effective project manager
April 2010
- Bureaucratic project management – no way!
- Project communication: How do you tell ‘em and how effective are you?
- Project management and performance management – do they meet?
March 2010
February 2010
- Project managers;develop your consultancy skills
- Legal case suggests don’t promise what you cannot deliver.
- “Train them, and train them fast!”
- “I did not sign up for this project management stuff.”
January 2010
- Project briefing – sponsors must do better!
- Government computer failures add up to huge bills for taxpayers
- So, as my project sponsor….
- Questioning, one of those project management skills that needs to be well honed.
December 2009
- Develop your project team and quickly!
- Poor Project Meetings – 8 Golden Rules to Ensure They Work Effectively
- Project Management Is Key to IT Efficiency
- Strategic Project Management – A Competitive Advantage
November 2009
- A project management register – where’s yours?
- The Nosey Project Manager
- England’s World Cup Bid – brought back from the abyss?
- Projects introduce change….which needs managing
- Organisational issues that get in the way of effective project delivery
October 2009
- Project branded as “A master class of misadministration”
- The Perfect Project
- Project team member breaks leg – what next?
- When a project manager has to say no.
- It’s tough at the top. You get handed a poisoned chalice
- Not such a good customer experience!
September 2009
- “Project manager’s need to put their head above the parapet.”
- Training course discovers need for project leadership
- Breaking into Project Management – Josh Nankivel
- Project Challenge – free workshops and seminars
- Project estimating; avoid the must answer now syndrome
August 2009
- Does your project fit into the ‘Golden Thread?’
- Wanted; project manager to take immediate action
- Do we really apply lessons learned to projects?
- Project Governance – there are more questions than answers
- Project management Blog captured at Alltop
- Project management course proves its worth!
July 2009
- Every project manager needs management models.
- Can You Answer These 5 Critical Project Management Questions
- Are you up to the job?
- Surrogate project sponsor puts projects back on course
- My project is clear, yes it is…oh no, its not!
- Is your project grey? If it is it’s a risk!
June 2009
- Learning from project failures
- How to fix government IT projects
- Who is driving project management in your business?
- It’s people who deliver projects – conference!!
- Project communications – MUCH more effort needed
- Project failure – do we ever learn?
- Project Management Comment Causes a Stir on Twitter
May 2009
- It’s people who count in projects
- The Perils of Project Multitasking
- Projects at NIL cost!
- Vote on project success…or project failure
- Project managers plan for failure rather than success
- Project teams blog causes a stir
April 2009
- Project management – is it getting worse?
- I want to be a project manager, I don’t….
- The importance of project failure
- Cynical project management tips or the truth!
- Project management teams – how are yours “selected”
- Whatever happened to the customer service project?
- A project management register – where’s yours?
- Let’s bring back the real meaning of “deadline” in projects…
- Handling Multiple Projects II
March 2009
- Handling multiple projects
- If we had been honest we would never have received project approval!
- Practical Project Management Training – it works!
- Project scope proves its worth.
- Age Concern Project wound up
February 2009
- Networking skills for Project Managers
- Too busy – well read this to enhance personal productivity
- What do we want? We want a project management process? *
- Where’s the project handover plan
- Sorry, Britain is closed.
January 2009
- Project Control; myth, fantasy or a great big gap?
- Cull those projects and right now!!
- Project Optimism
- Project Monitoring – more time spent on business as usual than projects?
- Are you a stressed project manager?
- It’s a great project that will really make a difference but it’s not going well
- The most valuable project management template is…..
December 2008
- Missed project activity – no wonder it was late
- Seasonal greetings with this amusing project!!
- The project was delivered – the client put it down to great questions.
- “One of the worst cases of project management seen by this committee”.
- Project out of control…..read this!
- Project roles – let’s make them clear, for you, the client and the company!
- The project presentation, how did it go?
- Are you a good lover? Part II
- Project Management – who is it for?
- Are you a good lover? Part I
November 2008
- Project governance – the death of a project; lost in the bureaucracy
- I simply do not get on with the project team member
- Chairing that project meeting – a success?
- Read the instruction manual first – or ensure you know where your project is going
- Are your change projects really working?
- International Project Management Day – TODAY!!
- Are you cutting back or investing in project management training?
October 2008
- Are there too many project management qualifications?
- Project risks – it is even more important to identify and manage them.
- Government Projects – why they fail
- The lessons of project management; they go with the rubbish?
- Are you really doing the right projects?
- Learning from projects – Jerry points the way ahead
- Project suspended to relocate desert tortoises
- Develop your communication skills or your projects will fail!
- Project and programme management training – the most in demand
- Project management teams – how are yours “selected”
September 2008
- Performance management – but does it measure project management?
- A key strategic project – but how well is it resourced
- Good time management is essential for project managers…
- Project management – what a challenge!!
- So, where’s your project sponsor and how good a job do they do?
- So, as my project sponsor….
- The death of a project…..
- Are you really managing stakeholders?
August 2008
- It’s not always doom and gloom – project success rules!
- When all hell breaks loose in your project
- Using project management as a change agent!!
- I love it when a (project) plan comes together
July 2008
- When the project manager HAS to say no!
- Do you have a project office? You need a project office!!!
- “Senior managers need to get deeply involved in project management”
- Project management detail; the curse of the project manager?
- Project Governance – how does your organisation match up?
- Project management kick off meetings – what is the point?
- It’s risky not assessing project management risks!!
- Kill that project?
- Annual report on projects
- What does project success really look like?
- A study in project failure
June 2008
- Delivering your strategic agenda; project management – 3 of 3
- Delivering your strategic agenda; project management – Part 2 of 3
- It’s like pushing a heavy stone up a steep hill – having a project office
- Delivering your strategic agenda; project management – 1 of 3
- Redressing the balance – time to focus on people in projects
- Project Humour
- When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn II*
- For project manager, read consultant!
- A Report on Key Projects Implemented in 2007
- “A gold standard cock up”
- How effective are your project teams?
May 2008
- What are you trying to achieve? Write it down….
- Take a bow the public sector.....
- Great job – look at the PROJECT GOVERNANCE responsibility
- Do we really learn from failure
- How healthy is your project?
April 2008
- How long will it take?
- Those Olympic estimates will not go away
- Have a look at your…project leadership
- Sorry, in a meeting
- Project over-runs….again
- Me compartmentalise – no, not me!
- Come on you senior managers. Play your project roles effectively.
- Free Tips Booklet
March 2008
- Keep it simple……….please!
- Terminal 5 shambles brings holiday chaos
- Help needed for research project – read on…
- It’s all in the head!!
- When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn*
- Let the train take the strain
January 2008
April 2007
March 2007
- Project management survey 2007
- Lots of projects but how well delivered?
- Lottery Funded Projects – late and overbudget
- Project Sponsorship…..time to improve?
- Free conference!!
- Old Blog!!
February 2007
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