Employment trends and the project manager
If you were unemployed tomorrow, could you compete in the current project management job market? PM Oracles sent Jeff Hodgkinson on a...
How secure are your project tools?
Years ago I had the pleasure of being the guest editor for the Telecommunications Journal of Australia where the theme was internet...
The language of project management
Improving your project vocabulary isn't just about learning project jargon, it's about making sure you're using the jargon the same way...
Risk analysis for the London Olympic Games
Heading to London? It won’t have escaped your attention that the biggest ever sporting event in London’s history is just around the...
Maintaining PMI project management certification
Members of the global professional association the Project Management Institute (PMI) will already be familiar with the Project Management...
10 tips for sharpening your project communications
These days it seems that everyone is a project manager. Even those of us in business-as-usual roles frequently find ourselves leading...
Distributed versus consolidated project contingencies
Distributed contingencies are normal in most aspects of project management but often result in sub-optimal use of resources. Typical...
Managing the handover of your project
Towards the end of the construction stage, with the contractor nearing practical completion, the next step is to manage the project during...
Poor governance wastes 25% of project investments
One in every four dollars of capital invested is wasted due to projects not delivering enough value in relation their cost according to...
Learning pathways and your project management career
PRINCE2, ITIL, MoP—if you're new to the project management training and education space, these acronyms are a bewildering alphabet soup of...