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What are your project management New Year’s resolutions?
She told me directly; “I made this New Year’s resolution and I was good, really good for a week and then, it simply slipped away…” I started to think about New Year’s resolutions that some project managers may have made: to focus on the risks that my projects may well face and how to manage them to ensure that changes … Read More
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Tagged project, project management paperwork, project manager, project roles
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The real value of project management paperwork.
“I don’t like all this paperwork,” said one of my course participants ” “OK, so would you like to tell us your reasoning?” I asked him. “Well, it will slow the project down if I have to all of the things you mention. I want a quick delivery and I won’t get it this way” “Let’s examine this with the … Read More
Project management methodologies – they are only guidelines
#PMCHAT is a weekly, on-line chat for Twitterers (hopefully the right term) all over the world. Anyone who is on Twitter can join in. It starts with a pre-game show where a featured person comes on – line and talks about the topic of the week. It is held every Friday though not this week as its Thanksgiving and starts … Read More
A project is like an aeroplane.
When a plane takes off around 90% of them are off course. This is because of wind, physics and general weather issues. The plane (project) is put back on course by signals from beacons (project reviews) and changes are made to put the plan (project) back on course. It lands at its destination successfully…(like your project) Among other things, you … Read More
How well do you motivate your project team?
I visited a relative in hospital recently. Nothing too serious I am pleased to say. What struck me was the awful ward; huge ceilings, poor facilities and even worse; demotivated staff. Now I do not criticise people lightly so what led me to this conclusion: buzzers to attract staff went unanswered for some time phone messages were not passed on … Read More
You cannot deliver this project early.
I had a meeting with Alan. Our conversation ranged from project management e-learning to sales and marketing activity alongside project management training and wider training issues. Alan has seen and done many things in his time and during discussion he stunned me. He told me the story of developing a stand alone e-learning project for an internal client. There was … Read More
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Tagged project, project management e-learning, project management training
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