The myth of flexibility: people, projects, prostration 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. April 23, 2012 Blogs
Project management at the crossroads 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? April 10, 2012 Blogs
Portrait of a career project manager 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? March 26, 2012 Blogs
For project management and beyond 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. March 12, 2012 Blogs
Technology: friend or foe? 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… February 24, 2012 Blogs
People in projects, the final frontier 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. February 10, 2012 Blogs Leadership Stakeholders Teamwork
Time: the bright side of the iron triangle 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. January 27, 2012 Blogs Time
5 project management predictions for 2012 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. January 13, 2012 Blogs
