The practice of project management is changing and as it changes, the demands on project leaders are changing just as rapidly. Many...
Project reports and the PMBOK
One of the less well-understood parts of the PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition has been the significant refinement in the way project data is...
Beware of rhetoric in communication
One of the more interesting communication backfires of the last few weeks has been the widespread reaction to the Abbott government's...
How technical project managers fail to communicate
Apollo 13 Mission Control Flight Director Gene Krantz was an 'engineer's engineer': although a highly capable rocket scientist, he lacked...
Sun Tzu and the art of stakeholder management
Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War nearly 2,500 years ago; his ideas have been widely translated and are regularly used as a guide for...
The role of action learning in project leadership
In today’s competitive and ever-changing environment, organisations are more frequently, and without notice, required to change at the...
Choosing project team members
Many project managers have likely been subjected to resource selection well before they knew what the selection criteria, roles and...
Review: Reinventing Communication – Mark Phillips
This highly original book looks at two perennial issues faced by projects of all kinds: how to create an environment of high performance...
Engaging virtual project teams
As workforces become more dispersed and remote, what does it take to manage a virtual project team effectively? While work trends come and...
The 3 types of stakeholder communication
One of the concepts underpinning the research for my doctoral thesis and the Stakeholder Circle® methodology is the concept that project...