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When to project manage your life

There’s nothing like moving house—badly—to shore up some lessons learnt. Editor Adeline Teoh asks: what project-led advice would you give to someone moving house?

October 6, 2014

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The true cost of project shortcuts

We are often pressured to take shortcuts to save time and cut costs. However, if you’re not a skilled project manager, the wrong shortcut could end up costing more. Michelle LaBrosse on the true cost of project shortcuts.

September 26, 2014

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Restart or shut down? When to phoenix a project

Call it nihilism, a childhood with not enough Lego or a phoenix as a spirit animal but editor Adeline Teoh can’t help but feel the urge to clean the slate and rewrite everything. When is this a suitable attitude to take with projects?

September 22, 2014

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Shaping the ragtag project team

How do you create a team when most of the immediate team members are allocated and consultants and contractors are usually selected based on price? Brian Franklin explains the phases of team building.

September 17, 2014

Through the eyes of a project manager

Project management is necessarily about taking care of the details, but too often you can become caught up in a series of minutiae. What about the bigger picture? asks editor Adeline Teoh.

September 10, 2014

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7 tips to make change sustainable

Sustainability today is really about adapting to change and being able to be effective in the face of change. Michelle LaBrosse provides 7 tips for making change stick.

September 2, 2014

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Change

If it looks like a project manager

What does a project manager look like? The way you answer this question might just show up some unconscious biases, writes editor Adeline Teoh.

August 25, 2014

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Taking your project team to lunch

You don’t need technology or superstars for a project to succeed, just a group of reliable people who work well with each other to get the job done, writes editor Adeline Teoh.

August 11, 2014

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How to deal with a limbo project

The longer a project goes unfinished, there is an exponential increase in the time to finish the project. How can you move these projects from limbo to liberation? Michelle LaBrosse outlines five steps.

August 1, 2014

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