If you think volunteering is just about soup kitchens and charity shops, think again. Pro bono work is becoming more valuable, especially if you have project management skills to lend, writes editor Adeline Teoh.
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They say necessity is the mother of invention, but this doesn’t explain the ways of blue sky thinkers. Adeline Teoh ponders what gives birth to new ideas and innovative project management.
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Dedicated project managers bend over backwards to serve the project, their sponsors and stakeholders but are rarely flexible when it comes to meeting their own needs.
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One of the problems facing project management today is how do we know that someone with the role title ‘project manager’ can really manage a project?
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A significant number of project managers now have some sort of accreditation in the discipline and expect those coming in to complete tertiary study. Is this the end of the ‘accidental’ project manager?
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International Women’s Day reminds us that women hold up half the sky–and that the girls of the future may just need to wear spacesuits on their stratospheric rise.
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Does technology make projects easier to do or does it cause more frustration than it’s worth? When we talk about IT projects, why do so many people bring up the damning statistics about mass IT project failure? If a tree falls in the woods…
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There is no such thing as project success without happy stakeholders. There is no such thing as performance without a functioning team. There are no projects without people.
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Time is one side of the so-called project management ‘iron triangle’ by which the success of a project is superficially measured. Cost and quality complete the trio. It’s interesting to see time elevated to the same level as the other constraints when it is the most predictable but the least manageable of the three.
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I’m no clairvoyant, but I believe I can see where project management will head this year. Given that project management survived 2011, a year of disasters—natural and man-made—it wouldn’t be glib of me to say that project management will not only live another day but grow stronger in 2012.
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Articles by Adeline Teoh ed.
