Project Roles & Responsibilities – what a conundrum!
The most interesting and animated discussions during my PM courses are always around the roles and responsibilities during project definition, planning and delivery. We always …
Categories: Planning, PMO, Practical PM, Teams & Communication
Project Management Skills – necessary or irrelevant?
Is project management part of your company’s skills offering? Project management should be a skill that all professionals gain and maintain, however it’s a subject …
Categories: Business Growth, Deadlines, Planning, PM for Small Businesses, PM for Small Projects, PM for the Third Sector, Practical PM, Productivity, Small Businesses, Teams & Communication
Biting Off More Than You Can Chew
January can be a very inspirational time – a new start, a full year ahead to crack those challenges … however, it can also …
Categories: Practical PM
That’s not project management!
This was the cry from a delegate on one of my recent courses when we were looking at time management apps. Good point well made, …
Categories: Practical PM
APM and the Art of Laziness
APM (The Association for Project Management) are all about encouraging and supporting the application of professional project management nationally and internationally. Sometimes that can seem quite …
Categories: Practical PM
Keep it simple & communicate…
Can project management really be simple?… I believe in keeping things as simple as possible and having as little stress in my life as possible …
Categories: Practical PM
How to do jobs we never get on with…
I have talked about task lists and to do lists to help you keep on track with the work to be done. But what about …
Categories: Practical PM
We all need a good ticking off!
I love ticking items off my task list… in fact I will admit to adding already completed jobs to a task list just so I …
Categories: Practical PM
So what is project management anyway?
For those of us who have worked with the term project management for many years it seems obvious… But it is the first question I …
Categories: Practical PM
The easy way to snogging good projects!
Snogging – what a great word that is – do kids still use it – they should!! The point I really want to make is …
Categories: Practical PM
