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‘It’ll Never Fly’ How often have you heard words like that on your project? Or maybe you’ve said them. If so, you’re in danger of ‘Confirmation Bias’.
...Team motivation is tricky. Your project team comes together at short notice, and don’t know one another. But motivation is key to boost their performance.
...Your relationship with your Project Sponsor is crucial to the success of your project – and to your success as a Project Manager.
...It may sound contradictory, but sometimes, for influencing stakeholders, you need to start at the bottom! I’ll give you 4 smart reasons why.
...Waterfall is a term we hear a lot in Project Management. But there are still too many project managers who don’t know what it really means.
...Waterfall Project Management is a specific approach to tackling a project. It is linear and follows a series of stages or phases.
...It can easily happen to a Project Manager. The work builds up. The problems increase. Deadlines loom. Before you know it, you’re feeling overwhelmed.
...Is your project a happy place? I hope so. But can you deliberately raise morale without going all ‘happy-clappy’? Well, yes you can.
...ITIL is the most widely-used framework for IT Service Management (ITSM). As a Project Manager, you may find yourself delivering IT.
...It isn’t ideal to take over a started project. Maybe they won’t have set it up to succeed. But, if you have to, you’ll need my Project Takeover Formula.
...One of the most important characteristics that a Project Manager needs is Grit. In our context, it means perseverance and passion for long term goals.
...To become an exceptional Project Manager, you need to learn how to learn from failure. I’ll talk about the secret to this, via the idea of failing fast.
...Projects create change for people. And the success of projects often depends on how well you manage that change. Here’s a primer in Change Management.
...What is CAPM? It is PMI’s entry-level professional qualification: Certified Associate in Project Management. All the basics you need in a short video.
...If you don’t control stress, it will control you. Stress is a key topic for Project Managers. My biggest Project Management failure revolved around stress.
...When you have been managing projects for a while, you will start to notice that some things are always true. Each of these ‘Project Management Rules‘ reminds us of something important about Project Management, so I have been collecting them for nearly 20 years.
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