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A project that could save your life

As we approach the end of another year, you need to remember to protect one of your biggest project assets—yourself. Editor Adeline Teoh on stabilising your foundations and leading by example.

December 15, 2014

Blogs

Leading projects

Effective leadership and sponsorship of projects is essential for project success. Elissa Farrow recaps a workshop in which young project managers are encouraged to share experiences to better lead a project team.

December 11, 2014

Blogs

Which came first, the project process or the tool?

PM Oracles discusses two aspects of project/program management—the processes and the tools we use as program and project managers—and asks: what comes first—the process or the tool?

December 3, 2014

Tools

Shaping the ragtag project team

How do you create a team when most of the immediate team members are allocated and consultants and contractors are usually selected based on price? Brian Franklin explains the phases of team building.

September 17, 2014

Controlling complex projects

Complexity theory helps us to understand the social behaviours of teams and the networks of people involved in and around a project, its stakeholders. Pat Weaver on why complexity is not just a synonym for complicated or large.

August 7, 2014

Lessons on project governance from the CBA scandal

The CBA financial scandal is a classic example of the effect of setting the wrong performance targets. Pat Weaver on the challenge for project controls professionals and PMOs to create performance measures that focus on things that matter.

July 7, 2014

Project Management Office

Choosing project team members

How do you choose members for a project team? Functional skills are no longer the only criteria; project managers must consider behaviour, writes PM Oracles.

June 26, 2014

Teamwork

Review: Reinventing Communication – Mark Phillips

This highly original book looks at two perennial issues faced by projects of all kinds, reviews Lynda Bourne: how to create an environment of high performance for the people working in it and how to manage project complexity.

June 17, 2014