How to handle back seat project drivers Road trips can be stressful at the best of times, but what happens when back seat drivers start to dictate where you’re going and how you get there? July 28, 2014 Blogs
Communities for change Communities of Practice are common within a range of industries and professional groups, including project management. Elissa Farrow looks at the definition and foundation of a community and their benefits. July 24, 2014 Blogs Change
Playing at project management Gamification is not about making something into a game to extract lessons or improve skills, although games can be effective at that. It’s using game psychology to improve performance. Editor Adeline Teoh on how gamification may be used on projects. July 14, 2014 Blogs
How lack of planning hurts government projects Lack of planning causes project failure, so why can’t we devote more resources to ensuring project success instead of reserving them for firefighting? Brian Franklin asks. July 8, 2014 Blogs
Games for change Games were developed to help us learn and for Elissa Farrow, cultureQs has allowed people to quickly gain a clear understanding of their own drivers and their colleagues’ drivers. July 4, 2014 Blogs
Are we facing a project-based future? A project-based future needs a project-based work environment and it seems many organisations are already embracing activity based working. Let there be projects and project spaces, writes editor Adeline Teoh. June 27, 2014 Blogs
Is project management an exact science? Project management is about knowing the customer’s objectives, the right deliverables, assembling the right team. But, asks Brian Franklin, what happens when we do not get it exactly right? June 23, 2014 Blogs Risk
The one highly effective habit for project managers The habit editor Adeline Teoh thinks we need to make, as decision-makers and project managers, is the one that stops us before we sign off on decisions in case we’ve submitted to routine thinking. June 16, 2014 Blogs
Using agile timeboxing for managing tasks How often have you heard someone say they were good at multitasking? Michelle LaBrosse advocates for agile’s timeboxing, the practice of focusing on one project task—without distractions—for a short, pre-defined period of time, as better for productivity. June 10, 2014 Blogs
