Baking the project cake
Project management is not a lot different to baking a cake. PMBoK provides the fundamentals from which a recipe (a methodology) can be...
Using probability to analyse your project
Introduction by Pat Weaver To paraphrase the old IT joke about 10 types of people in the world (those that understand binary and those...
3 agile practices to boost productivity
I want my team to be more committed, and to start thinking for themselves. I want them to be both more self-organising, and to deliver on...
Review: Changing the Conversation—Dana Caspersen
Difficult conversations are common in the world of a project manager due to the number of project stakeholders within and external to the...
Review: Management Science, Operations Research and Project Management—José Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo
As a project manager who has always struggled with mathematics this book's title and contents appeared daunting. However, following the...
Licence to project manage: should credentials be necessary?
Project management credentials can look like an alphabet soup of post-nominals, but are they actually worthwhile? My first...
Best practice risk management for IT projects
Today’s IT projects usually represent a major deliverable of a wider enterprise program and their success or failure can have a massive...
Job security for project managers
In an era of large-scale layoffs and job precariousness, it may feel as though there’s nothing you can do to secure your position besides...
Creating value from change
There is a steadily increasing focus within organisations on managing change and maximising the opportunities change is supposed to...
Mindbending ways to misconstrue project benefits
The other week I had the pleasure of attending ProjectChat in Sydney, incorporating the Benefits Realisation Summit. Last week I had the...