Carnival of Project Management #42

Welcome to the September/October 2012 edition of the Carnival of Project Management.

Roshan Vani presents Understanding Contingency posted at The Hair on Fire Project Manager – The Hair on Fire Project Manager, saying, “A simple to understand explanation of contingency with a link to a tutorial of a cost contingency Monte Carlo tutorial using @Risk.”

Theresa Torres presents 7 Ways to Encourage Teamwork in Your Small Business posted at BusinessServiceReviews.com, saying, “Establishing a team culture tend to increase overall productivity and workplace satisfaction that contributes to the success of a project. Here are seven strategies for project leaders to foster a team environment.”

Luis Seabra Coelho presents Using Mind Maps: how and what for posted at Innovative Solutions For Positive Change. In his view mind maps can be a useful tool in project management, and I wouldn’t disagree.

The PMI Voices on Project Management blog has an article by Dmitri Ivanenko titled Foster Growth for Junior Project Managers. Useful if you are mentoring or managing junior project managers.

The Busification blog has a bit of an entry-level guide to using project management in small businesses. How SME’s should adopt project management covers the basics.

Gina Abudi has an article called Do you practice change management, or just manage change? on her blog. It’s a guest post by Ronn Faigen. He seems to agree with my belief that we can’t just do project management and expect everything to turn out fine.

Julie Anne Hoey has an article on ProjectManage.com about The most common mistakes in project management. Personally I would have put other things on the list, but I can’t argue that these aren’t common problems.

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