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Can project managers play the long game?

Many project managers like projects because they’re temporary, they end. But what if you need to be in it for the long haul? asks editor Adeline Teoh.

May 2, 2016

Blogs

How to use critical success factors

John Rockart coined the phrase ‘critical success factors’ meaning factors that need to be measured and managed as pre-requisites to success. The project fraternity redefined this phrase to mean “the most important success measures”—and they’re wrong, writes Jed Simms.

February 6, 2015

Blogs

How performance management can help your project

Consistent high performance in the creation of value from projects and programs requires the technical capabilities to manage projects effectively but Pat Weaver looks at why technical maturity is not enough and how performance management can change the game.

January 27, 2015

Governance

Project portfolio management versus project ERP

What is project portfolio management software? How does it deliver value to a project-driven enterprise in a way that is different from EPM or ERP? Rob Stummer wades through an alphabet soup of three letter acronyms to figure out what project managers really want.

July 10, 2014

Project management and the art of delegation

All project managers have numerous pressures on their time, and need to achieve a high rate of productivity. Good delegation saves you time, develops your people, grooms a successor, and motivates, writes Patrick Weaver.

September 3, 2013

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

Desperately seeking (successful) strategy

Strategy, almost by definition is about the big picture. It’s about being comprehensive, across the whole landscape of issues and opportunities, trends and events. Where have you used strategic thinking and planning to help your project team open up a new future? asks David Jago.

January 7, 2013

Blogs

Implementing an enterprise project management tool

Enterprise project management, also known as portfolio project management (PPM) tools have many functions, but how many of them do we really need? Martin Vaughan suggests an approach that will make tools useful rather than baffling.

August 27, 2012

Blogs