From the monthly archives:

April 2011

A right Royal project

April 29, 2011

In case you’ve been living under a rock, today’s the day that Prince William of Wales marries Catherine Middleton, and it feels like London has been turned into one big Union Jack. I planned my wedding in Microsoft Project, and I’m not the only project manager who considered their big day worthy of proper planning. [...]

An overview of project integration management

April 25, 2011

Studying for the PMP exam? Or just want to learn more about how the different bits of project management all fit together? This video provides an overview of project integration management. [videoplayer file="http://media.libsyn.com/media/pmpodcast/E04.00_Project_Integration_Management_Overview_Small.mp4" /]> This video was produced by the people at the Project Management PrepCast. If you enjoyed it, you can subscribe to the [...]

Project Meetings: 3 Steps to Maximize Efficiency

April 20, 2011

This is a guest post by Kathlika Thomas, head writer for the IT Project Blog. Impromptu project meetings are easy enough to schedule and can be useful, especially for getting quick responses from a client or from a technical resource when needed. However, ad hoc sessions can be time wasters, too. More often than not, the wrong people [...]

Book Review: The Cure for the Common Project

April 20, 2011

The full title of this book is The Cure for the Common Project: Five Core Themes That Transform Project Managers into Leaders. The book’s cover highlights the idea of a ‘cure’ with a picture of 5 coloured tablets, in a clean and striking image. Rick Valerga’s 5 core themes are: Expectation management Ownership Winning Narrative [...]

Giveaway winner: NLP for Project Managers

April 11, 2011

Last month’s newsletter giveaway winner was Fiona from Edinburgh. She wins a signed copy of NLP for Project Managers: Make Things Happen with Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Peter Parkes. Congratulations, Fiona! What? You missed out on the chance to enter the giveaway because you don’t subscribe to the newsletter? Sign up here.

Software review: RationalPlan

April 11, 2011

General information Name: RationalPlan Vendor: Stand by Soft Ltd Hosting options: Locally hosted. There is a free trial but it requires you to download an application. Cost and plans: Single project (this is not just for one project at a time; it relates to having unrelated projects without dependencies). Multi-project for interrelated projects i.e. a [...]

Focus on project management outcomes, not processes

April 6, 2011

We’ve been doing some thinking at work recently about how to improve the project management processes. The processes aren’t terrible, but it’s good to review them every so often to see how the rest of the business has changed and how we should keep up. However, project management outcomes are more important than processes. Processes [...]

Carnival of Project Management #34a

April 4, 2011

Welcome to the April/May 2011 edition of the Carnival of Project Management. It’s our 34th edition. Really. I know I said that last time, but the numbering has been a bit mixed up over the past few months. I went back and counted every edition, just to check. So I’m calling this one ’34a’ so [...]

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