What is Effective Project Management?
Every business owner has to juggle a number of different projects at any one time. But while resources are tight, it’s particularly important you make the best use of your time. Read more in this...
View Article3 Critical Activities for Effective Project Management
Having never managed a project, I was thrilled when the Executive Director asked if I wanted to be the project manager for the website initiative. As a team member, I had watched project managers...
View ArticleThe Secrets of Successful Project Management
Managing software projects is difficult under the best circumstances. Unfortunately, many new project managers receive virtually no job training. Sometimes you must rely on coaching and survival tips...
View Article10 Best Practices for Successful Project Management
The right mix of planning, monitoring, and controlling can make the difference in completing a project on time, on budget, and with high quality results. These guidelines will help you plan the work...
View ArticleThe 6 Attributes of Successful Project Managers
The best project managers are those who consistently deliver, on time and within budget, projects that meet or exceed stakeholders’ expectations. Those project managers understand that leadership and...
View Article10 Rules of Highly Successful Project Management
The Project Management Institute defines project management as “the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements” (PMBOK Guide, 3rd...
View ArticleWhat can Project Managers Learn on Twitter?
Robert Kelly and Rob Prinzo have started using Twitter to connect project managers in an unusual way. Elizabeth Harrin spoke to Robert about how they are bringing project managers together on-line (and...
View ArticleWays to Build Your Company Culture Using Social Media
Company culture is a lot like meetings and memos: it’s an inescapable, and inevitable, part of the employee (and candidate) experience. But with the rise of social media, virtual employees and global...
View Article5 Ways Social Media Will Change The Way You Work
In the nine short years since Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com, social media has evolved from dorm room toy to boardroom tool. Last year, 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies were active on...
View ArticleBusinesses, take note – and don’t miss this train!
The Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media for Business Today, everything is about Social Media. Some industry gurus claim that if you do not participate in Facebook, YouTube, and Second Life,...
View Article5 Important Facts about Leadership: Lessons From Peter Drucker
What makes a leader successful? Leadership isn’t some sort of manipulation. Real leadership depends heavily on integrity and it has extraordinary power. It alone can make the difference between...
View ArticleHow to Spark a Culture Change
Changing employees’ behaviours can be hard without the proper guidance and incentives. To produce high-value and sustainable change, connect new behaviours with measurable business goals. Many...
View ArticlePublic Sector – Values of Leadership
It’s really tough working in the public sector right now isn’t it? Budget cuts, rationing, re-configurations, litigation and I could go on and on. The constant negative news coverage with little sign...
View ArticleFive Steps To Leading Change Successfully
Executives who want to implement a change need to identify the influencers in their organization who can help push the project forward — or who can cause it to stall. Executives who want to head in a...
View Article7 steps to ‘Cultural Heaven’ in the NHS
After what feels like ten years of the NHS and those with an interest in the NHS obsessing about structures and systems, culture is starting to get the profile it deserves. In fact, it is hard to read...
View ArticleNHS Report Urges Cultural Change
Continually improving patient safety should “permeate every action and level in the NHS”, according to a major review. Changing the culture of the NHS will “trump” any new rules and strategies, said...
View ArticleNHS Patient Safety – The Silence of the Lambs is Coming to an End
Look at what happened in the biggest financial scandal ever to hit the United States. Driven by profit, company directors in ENRON turned a complete blind-eye to criminal fraudulent activity. They had...
View ArticleWhich Project Framework to Use? Agile or Waterfall? How About Both?
Guest Post by Barry Hodge You have a new project and you have the choice of which project framework to use. Do you choose the traditional Waterfall approach or the iterative Agile approach? In this...
View ArticleHow Companies Must Change
In a Fortune article, Lynda Gratton explains how companies must change and develop effective ways of living their values to attract and retain the next generation of talented individuals. What is it...
View ArticleWhat Agile Development Taught Me About Life
The startup world has made a religion of killing the sacred cow: anything that reeks of business-as-usual is frowned upon. Graduating from university? Unnecessary. Cubicles? Please. PowerPoint? Shame...
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