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Isolation and the project contractor

If you are a project contractor, there is a possibility that you will spend at least some of your time working in isolation. SANE Australia and Entity Solutions warns that too much independence can affect your health.

September 20, 2012

Communication

Robots versus Superheroes

It sounds like the title of a great movie, but it’s a battle that is played out every day in every organisation that runs projects. I read something this week that inspired me to write about this battle and what you can do if you are in the midst of it.

September 18, 2012

The truth about project controls

Much of we call ‘project controls’ is actually a process of communication that we can use to influence the direction of our project, writes Dr Lynda Bourne. How did we manage to confuse communication with control?

September 18, 2012

Make your project communication mindful

The starting point in any effective communication is developing a clear picture of what it is you want the communication to achieve. Lynda Bourne, on what makes project communication more mindful.

August 21, 2012

Communication

Forget core messages, project managers need buy-in

When it comes to winning hearts and minds to an idea, most leaders and communicators are not even playing on the right field. Does your project deserve better communication? Here’s how to attain buy-in, writes Geoff Kelly.

August 7, 2012

10 tips for sharpening your project communications

Without the right communication, the best project plan will go nowhere. Alison Wines argues that an understood objective is far more likely to become a supported objective, ensuring project managers gain critical buy-in.

July 12, 2012

Communication

Review: Eliminating ‘Us and Them’—Steve Romero

Eliminating ‘Us and Them’: Making IT and the Business One by Steve Romero is a solid treatment on the effective governance of IT. This book is excellent for diagnosing governance health in IT and would be a terrific primer for those moving into executive roles with a governance accountability for IT, writes reviewer Ian Sharpe.

June 4, 2012

Communication

The push and pull of project communication

Everyone in business today is buried under an avalanche of data; adding routine reports to the data mountain may no longer be useful. Lynda Bourne asks, is it time to bury traditional project reports?

June 1, 2012

Communication

The changing face of project collaboration

Society is embracing new technology, but as we do, social interaction gradually changes. In the project management space, professional interaction is also changing. Martin Vaughan charts this new paradigm and how it may affect communication on projects.

May 22, 2012