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

The Golden Team – the importance of PMOs within a project team

The role of project support is misunderstood and nearly always under utilised. Imagine yourself in the role of project manager where you have a right …

Categories: Planning, PMO, Teams & Communication

Empowering change through virtual project management

Your business is evolving, or needs to, in order to withstand the fast pace of the business world. But however hard you try to keep …

Categories: Teams & Communication, Virtual PM

Are you a process robot?

If we are not careful we can let the process drive the project. What drives the progress in your project? The budget – are we …

Categories: Teams & Communication

How to make friends… and improve productivity

Are you still struggling along managing projects on your own? “It’s stressful, but I get there eventually. By the skin of my teeth. Slightly late. …

Categories: Teams & Communication

Ten Tips for Productive Teams

It’s beginning to dawn on us, finally, that we are all trying to do too much. It’s a common complaint, we hear ourselves and our …

Categories: Teams & Communication

The Engagement Games

What do I mean by the word engagement? If you look this word up in a thesaurus it has several meanings – a pledge to …

Categories: Teams & Communication