Who is your IT Project’s Leader? At this time of year, are you really leading or is your company’s calendar more in charge? I ask because, independently, three Project Managers have told me that they are pulling their hair out because of unanticipated roadblocks along their projects’ critical paths. In each case, the cause is […]
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Planning for any sort of project is complex and challenging. You are going to need to apply skills and knowledge from all areas of project management. This means handling a huge amount of information. Despite this, project planning is a logical and structured process. With that in mind, in this blog post, we are going
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Ten years ago, a handful of firms had started to promote IT from business technology support to a strategic business partner but, for most, IT was still a back office function. That’s not to say that the projects weren’t complex and essential, they totally were. The thinking though, for many, was “this is what we want the business to do, how can IT help achieve this?” whereas the thinking now is more “what can IT achieve for the business?”
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If you search on LinkedIn, you’ll find more than 2 million Project Managers. This is a profession that has a huge impact on the daily lives of people everywhere. My goal is to help Project Managers communicate more effectively with their teams. Communication is the lifeblood of project management. PMs need to be able to
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As a project manager it is important to understand when you need more help with a project. Here we look at when you should admit you need this help. The experts at Parallel Project Training believe too often in the workplace we can be reluctant to ask for help, seeing it as a sign of
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You might have met those people at least once in your lifetime – people who are little rough around the edges, who might seriously need some sort of social skills and who we wonder how they ever manage to make it through a day without getting into problems with someone. All because they lack basic
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LinkedIn is by far the best social media platform for showcasing your professional project management skills and qualifications. But are you taking full advantage of what it offers you and your career path? LinkedIn, like most social media platforms, is busy. Standing out can be hard to do but it is certainly worth spending time
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Predicting job performance is vital, after all, that’s the whole point of recruitment. You want to hire someone who will stick around! So, you read what a candidate has written in their CV and you try to make an objective assessment, creating an “identikit” picture in your head based on what they’ve written. That can
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Even the best project manager can improve their time management skills, and this article is packed full of tips to up your time management game. You might think that having great time management was one of those basic project management skills that any half-competent project manager would have to have acquired in order to stay
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There are some areas of business where having a good number of contacts can be vital and project management is certainly no exception. Each project that you work on, even within the same company, may find you working with a new set of people, and these contacts may prove useful to you in the future.
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