Top 10 characteristics of a great project manager Being a project manager is a leadership position, which requires certain character traits and qualities. What does it take to make a good project manager great? Monica Wells suggests these 10 traits. July 18, 2014 Basic
Research reveals activity-based working key to future workplace Organisations looking to increase productivity and make significant gains in innovation will need to prepare for a future workplace designed around activity-based working (ABW), according to research conducted by UXC Connect and Tech Research Asia. April 21, 2014 News
Understanding project team dynamics A collection of people are asked to contribute work on the project based on their job role, their stake in the project outcome or a mandate. Or they may volunteer to be part of it based on passion or necessity. A team comes together. Or does it? Danielle Annells on how to evaluate project team dynamics. February 13, 2014 Teamwork
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
Did you mean to collaborate on this project? We say: “What we are going to do is collaborate on this project to get great outcomes,” but do we really know what we are saying when we say it? Do we know what we are committing to? asks Danielle Annells. September 18, 2013 Stakeholders
The importance of co-defining project dilemmas How do you ensure that you get new and essential project information from your stakeholders when it is too late to do anything about it? asks Danielle Annells. It’s a case of redefining the question. August 22, 2013 Stakeholders Teamwork
Project stakeholders: assets or risks to be managed? We often use the phrase ‘stakeholder management’. The implicit message in this phrase is that stakeholders need to be managed. Danielle Annells on why ‘stakeholder management’ gets in the way of true collaboration. August 8, 2013 Stakeholders
Collaboration could save ‘adversarial’ projects Australia’s buildings construction market is the world’s most adversarial, according to the recently released Blue Book, published by technical services consultancy AECOM. June 13, 2013 News
