What is a Project Charter? [aka a Project Mandate]

In this video, I answer the question, what is a Project Charter? Or what is a Project Mandate? How to kick your project off formally.

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Project Definition, Project Governance, Project Process

Project Delivery Capability: What are the Top 12 Components of Excellence?

What do we mean by ‘excellence’, when we discuss project delivery? And, what capabilities do we need, to achieve project delivery excellence?

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Must Read Guides, Project Delivery

Issue Management: What Do You Need to Know about PM’s Vital Process?

Issue management is a basic part of project management. Experienced project managers deal with it day-to-day. But is it straightforward?

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Project Control, Project Risk Management, Step-by-step Guides

Project Termination! When Should You Terminate Your Project?

STOP! There are many reasons to terminate a project before completion. Let’s look at when to terminate your project.

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Decision Making, Must Read Guides, Project Closure

Project Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid the 12 Most Scary Ones

There are many reasons why projects fail. One of the most common is when your plan is at fault. I survey my top 12 project planning mistakes.

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Project Planning

The Iron Triangle: Is it Time to Improve the Triple Constraint? [update]

The Iron Triangle, or Triple Constraint, is one of the best-known ideas in Project Management, and it is fundamental.

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Important ideas, Project Definition, Project Management Basics

Mastering Project Discovery: Conversation with Professor Elliot Bendoley

What is Project Discovery and what are its principles? I discuss this with Dr Elliot Bendoly, author of Mastering Project Discovery.

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Podcasts, Project Definition

What is a Role-Activity Diagram? (RAD) – aka Swimlane Process Diagram

In this video, I’ll answer the question, what is a Role-Activity Diagram (RAD)? It’s a process mapping tool; so let’s see how it works.

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Project Definition, Project Management: What is...

Top 10 Tools to Help You with Better Project Management

Do your projects over-run, go over budget, or fail to delight your clients? You can get rapid Project Management results, with my top ten PM tools.

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Project Management Tools and Techniques

How to Do a Project Handover… and When to do it!

In this video, I consider the question, ’when should you handover your project deliverables?’ and look at how to do it.

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Project Closure