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6 tips for project knowledge transfer

When the project ends and it is time for the project manager/s on contract to finish up, will your permanent staff be ready to take over? Can you be sure they are equipped with the specialist knowledge and insight needed to maintain momentum as the project moves from initiation into the business as usual phase?

February 21, 2012

How governance can save more projects

Project governance has been neglected, yet a governance team can destroy more value in five minutes than a project team can destroy in five weeks, says Jed Simms, co-founder of Totally Optimized Projects and governance expert.

February 3, 2012

5 tips for hiring project managers

Project managers on contract are the ideal just-in-time and flexible workforce. They bring skills, expertise and resources when you need them. They supplement inhouse capabilities and extend resident knowledge. However, they are also an independent breed. They like flexibility and autonomy. They know they aren’t staff and traditional employee management practices are unlikely to bring out the best in them.

January 24, 2012

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10 tips to better manage project information

With increasing cost pressures, there is increasing emphasis on creating value and driving cost-saving innovations within your projects to benefit both your customers and business process.

January 3, 2012

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Getting the right project information

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you have always gotten! That’s why really new outcomes need new thinking.

December 22, 2011

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 all help achieve this.

December 8, 2011

Adapting to the changing nature of project information

Have you received a project status update via Twitter yet? In this “age of effortless information” is the nature of project information changing and do we need to adapt?

November 23, 2011

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The meaning of project management

It’s interesting but many of the problems we have working in and around project environments and PMOs come back to words and people’s interpretations of what they mean.

August 19, 2011

4½ Key Steps to Project Success

Project success. We all recognise it when we see it, but what constitutes a successful project and how can this success be replicated in the future?

July 13, 2011