Project Management Blog Articles

The current economic downturn in the UK has led to a growing number of people looking at career alternatives and over the last six months I have had an increasing number of calls from candidates, who wish to move completely away from their current roles, of which many have been ensconced for a number of years and enter into the world of project management. It is a difficult route to embark on and the following will hopefully provide some stepping stones to securing a project management role. Read the rest of this entry »

Peter Taylor’s bestseller, The Lazy Project Manager, has been a project management phenomenon since it was published in 2009.

In it he shows how adopting a more focused approach to life, projects and work can make you twice as productive. The Lazy Project Manager and its sequel, The Lazy Winner, show how anyone can apply the simple techniques of lazy project management in their own lives in order to work and live more effectively. Read the rest of this entry »

As the project environment grows in complexity, project management will require team, stakeholder and executive collaboration in 2012 like never before. On-the-job application of training, custom-made project approaches, innovative project tools and smarter resource management will be essential for driving the greatest business impact.

Not only project management, but also the definition of “project success” has changed to encompass more than the triple constraint of time, cost and scope. Collaboration is a common theme throughout many of the identified 2012 trends for project management, which were determined by a global panel of senior executives and subject matter experts. Read the rest of this entry »

This article has the objective of developing an effective project diagnostic model to assess an organisation’s preparedness for undertaking projects. Executive management must address an important question: How prepared is my organisation for undertaking and managing its projects? In other words, there is a need to examine the extent that fundamental principles related to undertaking successful projects are entrenched in the organisation’s culture so that: Read the rest of this entry »

Let me start in the spirit of that classic US game show ‘Jeopardy  …

Answer: ‘a PMO’

Question: (and therefore actually the correct answer; that is just the way it works on the game show trust me – or look it up) ‘What is the department or group that defines and maintains the standards of process, generally related to project management, within an organization?’

Applause from the audience and smiles all round. Read the rest of this entry »