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How to deal with a limbo project

The longer a project goes unfinished, there is an exponential increase in the time to finish the project. How can you move these projects from limbo to liberation? Michelle LaBrosse outlines five steps.

August 1, 2014

Blogs

Perspectives on time management

Have you ever wondered why some people get upset when you are late but others don’t worry too much? If you want the best out of your diverse team everyone needs to embrace the opportunities different views of ‘time’ can bring, writes Lynda Bourne.

June 25, 2014

Time

Using agile timeboxing for managing tasks

How often have you heard someone say they were good at multitasking? Michelle LaBrosse advocates for agile’s timeboxing, the practice of focusing on one project task—without distractions—for a short, pre-defined period of time, as better for productivity.

June 10, 2014

Blogs

A temporal approach to project issue management

An issue is a realised risk and accordingly, an issue should have the same consequence (or impact) rating as the risk from which it was realised. Guy Wilmington proposes a way of prioritising temporal issues in project.

May 29, 2014

Risk

Understanding breakdown structures in project management

Breakdown structures are central to the practice of project management and have their origins in the industrial revolution. Pat Weaver explains how they can be useful—and sometimes not.

February 18, 2014