Project Manager

Are you practising stakeholder engagement by stealth?

Chances are your organisation already focuses on ‘stakeholder engagement’ but is using another name for the activity. Dr Lynda Bourne explains the common alternative terms project managers should look out for.

February 9, 2016

Stakeholders

How to prepare an effective project report

Far too many project controls professionals and project managers think they have done their job once the data has been gathered, analysed and the information developed to facilitate an informed decision. Pat Weaver says how you report it make all the difference.

July 14, 2015

Governance

Project reports and the PMBOK

One of the less well-understood parts of the PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition has been the significant refinement in the way project data is transformed into useful project reports. Lynda Bourne explains the flow.

September 16, 2014

Communication

Through the eyes of a project manager

Project management is necessarily about taking care of the details, but too often you can become caught up in a series of minutiae. What about the bigger picture? asks editor Adeline Teoh.

September 10, 2014

Blogs

The 3 types of stakeholder communication

Project success is determined by the attitudes of the key stakeholders around the project. Delivering a project on time, on budget and to specification is not sufficient. Lynda Bourne discusses the ways in which we should employ different types of communication for our projects.

May 28, 2014

BIM use in construction projects will rise

A study conducted by McGraw Hill Construction and Autodesk predicts a rise in the use of building information modelling (BIM) in construction projects across Australia and New Zealand.

March 28, 2014

News

Resources, capacity and the portfolio manager

Organisations must optimise their resources to mitigate project delivery delays and overruns, quality issues, and, in the long term, negative bottom line impact. Adele Bernard on capacity planning and resource management for a portfolio of projects.

September 5, 2013

Portfolio Management

Using project controls for effect

Describing scheduling, earned value and financial management as ‘project controls’ is, I would suggest, dangerous! Project controls is a communications process, argues Lynda Bourne.

April 3, 2013