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3 ways to stop procrastinating on your project

For anyone prone to procrastination, the intense, deadline-filled world of project management can certainly present a challenge.

A beginner’s guide to virtual project management

Managing a project remotely can seem like an intimidating and overwhelming task, but it doesn’t have to be. Virtual project management can result in lower business costs, access to a wider pool of talent, and increased flexibility for everyone involved, writes Megan Webb-Morgan.

Creating buy-in to develop innovation

In many organisations there are people that simply object to everything and resist change at every turn so how can we best implement innovation or value adding changes? Innovation expert Roger La Salle provides some advice on how to create buy-in in resistant environments.

Project management lessons from Angry Birds

If you haven’t already discovered the game Angry Birds, you may be missing out on some valuable project management lessons, writes Liz Pearce. Now, if only PMI would grant PDUs for the time we spend playing it…

Understanding the program management lifecycle

The objective of programs is to produce business level benefits by linking strategy to projects but little management rhetoric has made its way into program management literature and practice. Michel Thiry explains the program management lifecycle.

6 change questions for IT project managers

Armed with savvy change agents, smart organisations leverage their project managers’ skills to manage the inevitable shifts in the business landscape. IT change agents need to call on their other essential business skills: business savvy, communications, critical thinking, financial know-how and even coaching and mentoring.

Growth in projects leads to interim management roles

Demand for interim managers in Australia has increased steadily, and it is becoming a more attractive and recognised career option as businesses embrace specialist expertise for specific internal projects and restructuring activities, says Richard Dunks.

Project teams and the feedback loop

Karen Williams questions why we find it so difficult to deliver effective feedback and proposes a guide for project managers working with a cross-generational project team.

Review: Hiring for Attitude—Mark Murphy

Hiring for Attitude is a top-rated book by Mark Murphy, chairman and CEO of Leadership IQ. Prabesh Aryal provides his review:

“I believe this book would be a very good reference for project managers to assemble an attitude oriented project team.”