Project Management Breeds Innovation
Projects are fundamentally all about innovation. Project Managers are ‘agents of change’ – facilitating what hasn’t been done before. They solve problems to get things done. Taking a project management approach to business is about changing the way things have always...
Traits of Successful Project Managers
Managing projects can be both a stressful and rewarding experience. What makes a good project manager? Is it a blend of understanding people and the right level of pressure to apply and when? The skill to read between the lines and carefully negotiate relationship...
Great project management skills are needed in every profession
Whilst technical are hard to find people, it's even more difficult to find subject matter experts who also posess the business skills to deliver outstanding project results. A great project manager is able to articulate business and technical needs solve problems and...
How Do You Recruit Skilled Project Managers?
A 2006 Department of Employment survey on the skills shortage found that across industries the most frequent reason for not employing job applicants was "insufficient experience". Michael Young of award-winning project management consultancy ‘Transformed’ says that to...
Why have a project sponsor?
Many organisations mistakenly believe that it is up to the project manager to solve the organisation’s problems and make the project happen. Others just hire a project manager to be the scapegoat if things go wrong. But these strategies really just miss the whole...
9 Steps to Successful Event Management
Procrastination can be a good thing sometimes, ideas can be incubated and brewed further which in term can result in a greater outcome. However, when it comes to event management procrastinate on the creative theme but start planning the event as early as possible. ...
How to implement a Project Management Office
A Project Management Office or PMO is a centralised body that focuses on project management within an organisation. The PMO can identify and address project management issues to support the achievement of organisational outcomes. Implementing a Project Management...
There’s Quality and There’s Project Quality!
Project failure statistics are pretty frightening. Recent statistics have shown that most large capital projects fail to live up to expectations, that 2/3rds of IT projects fail and 70% of new manufacturing plants are closed in their first decade and the list goes...
How do you close a project?
Forget seagull management or the never-ending story – your project needs closure! Organisations characterised by a lot of project activity often finish projects as quickly as possible, wash their hands of them and rush headlong into the next job at hand. Some projects...
Stakeholder analysis the why’s and wherefore’s
Did you know that however much your plan your project if you don’t obtain buy in from key interested parties the whole thing may come crashing down? Key interested parties or ‘stakeholders’ can be very influential in smoothing the pathway to project success or sending...