Destination unknown: can project managers work without a map? It’s all about the skill of the project manager. It’s a matter of keeping track of activities, re-balancing, taking account of risks, resource constraints, managing scope… Baloney! Bruce Nixon says you can’t succeed if you don’t know where you’re going. February 19, 2014 Scope
7 trends in project management for 2014 Project managers and industry experts are continuously reimagining project management and pushing the envelope to fuel its evolution. So what should we look out for this year? Krishna Kumar offers some predictions. February 6, 2014 Intermediate Tools
Managing compliance using business modelling Research shows more than half of Australian businesses struggle to keep up with compliance. Failure to comply with industry regulations can have serious consequences. Bruce Nixon shows how business modelling can help project managers and organisations keep track of regulation changes. December 4, 2013 Quality
Project management software review: activeCollab activeCollab sports all the features you’d expect from a project management system, with the basics—projects, milestones, tasks, and subtasks—very well thought through, writes Anselm Christophersen. November 5, 2013 Tools
Who’s afraid of project failure? For all the hand-wringing about project failure, has any organisation really embraced the concept that failing could be good? asks editor Adeline Teoh. October 21, 2013 Blogs
People, projects and a model for employee engagement People are an organisation’s greatest asset but we’re not doing enough to engage them, writes Bruce Nixon. How can we build an engagement model that’s both flexible and a true representation of the business? August 5, 2013 Change Teamwork
Improving project management through metamodelling New business modelling tools provide the means to capture the concepts and relationships and share them without imposing an unnecessary burden on the project, writes Andrew Warner, this way you can see the project management tree in the forest. May 22, 2013 Advanced
How to build daily engagement Connection between work and organisational strategy is critical part of building employee engagement. Elissa Farrow says there’s a lot you can do to build engagement in day-to-day activities. February 14, 2013 Blogs Teamwork