I review Carole Osterweil’s excellent book, Neuroscience for Project Success. But, I also share some of the key ideas from neuroscience.

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Whether you are leading a team or engaging stakeholders, inspiring the people around you will raise your profile and boost your charisma.

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The PMBOK 7 Measurement Performance Domain is an insightful exploration of the monitoring and controlling activities of Project Delivery.

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Let’s look at the different ways the Project Organization of the Project Manager and their team can be drawn from the wider organization.

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Relationships go wrong. Conflict management may not be a welcome part of a Project Manager’s role. But it is an important part.

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A new Project Plan needs a Baseline. It’s how we keep ourselves honest, as Project Managers. But, what is a Project Baseline?

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A Project Manager needs many skills and one of the hardest is managing conflict. From a small spat to a mighty row, conflict is inevitable.

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Some people might expect that agile projects need no risk management. That is wrong. Let’s see how to do risk management in agile projects.

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I find simple frameworks to be good mental models to help understand and describe a situation. So, what is MOST and what is GOSPA?

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Stakeholder engagement starts with identifying your stakeholders, then analyzing them. So, what goes into a full stakeholder analysis?

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The Project Delivery Performance Domain is about what your project will deliver. The PMBOK 7 Delivery Domain concerns are scope and quality.

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Why is Project Estimation a big deal? It’s very hard to do well & poor estimates are often a major reason for cost or schedule over-runs.

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Once your project is complete, you need to hand it over into Business as Usual, and define how project deliverables will be supported in BAU.

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It’s important to know when it’s time to stop – or at least pause, your project. So, we’ll look at all the reasons why you may want to do so.

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John Kotter gave his model for change management in his best seller, Leading Change. So, what is Kotter’s 8-Step Process for Leading Change.

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If you want your Project to be a success, you need to be able to create effective teamwork. What can you do, as a Project Manager, to create it?

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