Most project managers have read, at one point of another, that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is considered a key factor for the success of a project. In this post I start by considering what Emotional Intelligence is and what it brings to...
Rather than a technical article, this time I have interviewed Michael, co-founder of this blog with me. Sometimes we overlook the personal part of project management and I wanted to see what I might learn by asking Michael a few questions...
Unofficially project management has existed ever since people have been doing projects, even before they were called projects. I’m sure there was someone in charge of building Stonehenge or the pyramids and that they had a some sort of plan, although...
This is a guest article by Glevys Rondon. Glevys worked for over two decades as director and founder at the Latin American American Mining Monitoring Programme, an international organisation based in London aiming to empower and improve the lives of women...
Intro As project managers, one mantra we have is that a goal without an action plan is just a wish. Fair enough to say that sometimes it is tough to come up with a plan when everything seems unpredictable. To make...
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What if there were a way to do less and to achieve more in your projects? Everything starts with the project scope and how we negotiate and handle it. Early on in the project everything seems possible. But an extensive scope is like noise.
While it might be an exaggeration to call a project plan a battle plan, no project plan is ever perfect or will perfectly encompass the project from beginning to end without the need for changes or updates. No battle plan ever...
“Bad things happen.” “Nobody could have seen it coming.” “This is just a complex project”… This is what you will hear in the absence of risk management. To some degree, everybody is already familiar with the basic logic of risk management....
In my experience I have always been too quick to actually start working on new projects. There are a few important steps that I like to go through between saying I will manage a project and I am now managing a...
