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Book review: Project Management Interview Questions Made Easy

April 17, 2013

Structured around 7 steps to a successful interview, Project Management Interview Questions Made Easyby Dr Andrew Makar is about more than the interview questions themselves. It is a whole guide to getting a new job. It’s a short book which makes it easy to read and it is written in a very relaxed, helpful style. [...]

Talking about risk: interview with Wilhelm Kross (part 1)

April 15, 2013

It can be hard to talk to stakeholders about risk, but project status reports should include information about the risks faced by the project. Last month risk expert Dr Wilhlem Kross, a partner of Plejades and the Amontis Consulting network, spoke at Project Zone Congress in Frankfurt about real-life risk management. I caught up with [...]

Managing in a matrix – we are all project managers now!

April 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Kevan Hall, CEO of Global Integration. Project managers have had to deal with ‘matrix management’ for decades. They have to build the skills to manage short and long-term teams with representatives from different functions, regions and specialisations. The matrix actually first developed as a response to the need to [...]

How being customer-centric improves IT and project success

April 8, 2013

The video of me at Øredev speaking about how customer centricity improves success is available online on the conference website. It’s a presentation about the case study in the book I co-wrote with Phil Peplow last year, Customer-Centric Project Management, but it also includes an updated project case study and some material that didn’t appear [...]

The 8 Levers of Change

April 3, 2013

In their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work, Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change from your project to stick. They say that if your project isn’t addressing at least 4 of these elements, then the [...]

3 ways to practise your leadership skills

April 1, 2013

This is a guest post by Mike Clayton, author of Brilliant Project Leader. True leadership is not something you do when it suits you. In fact, true leadership emerges when it is least convenient, in tough times, under extremes of pressure. These are the situations that separate out the good project managers from the poor, [...]

Storytelling – a key competence for project managers?

March 27, 2013

This is a guest post by Merv Wyeth, Project Management Consultant at Chanctonbury Associates Ltd. Imagine my delight at being selected to participate in an invitation-only event about management methods. However, a condition of entry is that each participant is expected to address their colleagues using a twenty minute TED talk format, which seems to [...]

The Parent Project: Month 2

March 25, 2013

Eight weeks or so in, and The Parent Project is causing a lot of debate in our house. Thanks for all your lovely comments and emails about Jack, and your advice about how I can use my project management skills in parenting, as many of you do already. Here are some of the other things [...]

Book review: Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination

March 20, 2013

“This is such an incredible, unprecedented time to be a woman in business,” writes Emily Bennington in her book, Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination. “Never before has our style of leadership been so needed, and never before have our choices been so vast and our opportunities so great.” [...]

Improving project management standards at Airbus

March 18, 2013

Change is hard, and project managers aren’t particularly good at doing it to themselves – in my experience we prefer to implement change for others. Kevin Baker, Head of Project & Programme Management Operations at Airbus, took on the challenge of changing the way they manage projects. I spoke to him about how he implemented [...]

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