The newest and best PMBOK Guide is out, and we are here to welcome the Fifth Edition with a huge bear hug. Call us nerdy, but we like this...
Manager levers for employee engagement
In my last blog post I wrote about organisational culture levers for employee engagement, the second of the Corporate Leadership Council’s...
How to build daily engagement
In my last blog post I talked about how to build a culture of high engagement. The Corporate Leadership Council outlined a number of...
Building a high engagement culture
In this series, Elissa Farrow charts the importance of high engagement for your project team and how that engagement translates into...
The changing face of project collaboration
We love collaboration, don’t we? Society is embracing new technology, but as we do, social interaction gradually changes. Recently I have...
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....
Creating a public project memory
'Public memory' refers to meeting notes kept visible to the whole group the whole time. Butcher's paper, sticky notes and data projectors...
When a project manager leaves the office
A serious condition is spreading like fireweed across the project management sector. The symptoms include glazed-over eyes, droopy...
Building project troubleshooting capability
Here is a double whammy scenario to test your project management mettle. The management team made an important decision for the project...
Project management show ‘n’ tell
I sat in a window seat on the plane with my nose stuck in my newly purchased book. It was one of those books that sucks your right in,...










