How to prioritise your projects

Projects are pieces of capital investment and how you allocate capital directly impacts your future operations, competitiveness and profits. Jed Simms outlines the five steps to ensure your projects are prioritised correctly.

April 4, 2016

• Advanced
• Blogs

Why project managers should value soft skills

The project management community and the wider business community are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of soft skills, but there’s still a way to go, writes Dr Lynda Bourne.

June 3, 2015

• Skills

Mind the change gap

Organisations are often in the situation where their desire for change outweighs their capacity for change and therefore there is an uncomfortable gap where project failure lurks. Elissa Farrow suggests bridging this gap with capacity training.

January 13, 2015

• Blogs
• Change

Project management capability lacking, IT leaders warned

UXC Consulting chief executive Nick Mescher has questioned the IT industry’s ability to deliver projects with capability the big issue for today’s environment.

March 20, 2014

• News

Not all projects are created equal

It doesn’t matter what you start with, it’s what you do with what you have that counts, and that goes for project managers, writes editor Adeline Teoh.

August 2, 2013

• Blogs

Valuing project procedures

Dr Lynda Bourne on the difficulties in quantifying the value of improving an organisation’s stakeholder management capabilities and establishing the return on investment for a new project management office.

February 6, 2013

• Project Management Office

Getting the change management right to realise benefits

Did you know that successful benefits realisation is directly related to ensuring that people use the outcomes of the projects or programs? Elissa Farrow explains how.

January 3, 2013

• Blogs
• Change

5 steps to build change management capability

Elissa Farrow has had a long history of working with organisations to grow their internal capability around project, program, benefits, portfolio and change management. Here she shares five steps to build it.

November 29, 2012

• Blogs
• Change