Whoever said 'you can't make a pearl without grit' obviously wasn't trying to manage a project where the stakeholders had competing KPIs....
People, placement, project managers
You already know that networking is key to a career in project management but you can never tell when this might help solve someone else's...
Project beginnings
In the beginning there was the IDEA. And the people took the IDEA for an EVENT to the Manager and said: “Look Master, this is what we want...
Project management—who you are or what you do?
When almost anything can be defined as a project and almost anyone can claim to manage one, what does being a project manager mean? As a...
In pursuit of lifelong learning
Isn’t it amazing how in just a few years a child can go from verbally expressing themselves only through ear-piercing cries, to...
How a volunteer mindset can transform your project team
During the Sydney Writers' Festival last week I spent the equivalent of a working week as a volunteer supervisor. It's an annual ritual...
How lunch can build social capital in your project team
In their study of different project management practices across the globe, Frank Anbari and his collaborators noted in Managing Cross...
Losing control: what we need to learn about project governance
What does an overdue baby have to do with project governance? It teaches us that control is not micromanagement but responsiveness and...
Lessons in remembrance
As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, which Australians and New Zealanders commemorate as Anzac Day, I try to...
Licence to project manage: should credentials be necessary?
Project management credentials can look like an alphabet soup of post-nominals, but are they actually worthwhile? My first...