For individuals 1 – Deliver your projects on time and on budget. 2 – Feel (BE!) in control 3 – Less stress when managing projects 4 – Less waste (or […]
“Do we have to….?” The benefits of project management Read More »
What is it? PMP is the best Project Management qualification, by far. It’s basically a chartered project manager, and helps hugely if you are applying for a job as a
Project Management is about planning something where the tasks are related – some of them have to be done before some of the others, so you start by working out
Why is Time Management so different to Project Management? Read More »
I find Agile – and the people that push it – really annoying, and I think what annoys me about it is the implication that I’m old fashioned because I
Agile – weak at measuring progress, useless for forecasting Read More »
No! And here’s why On a continuum: Trello – great for listing tasks but that’s as far as it goes Asana, Monday, Jira, Basecamp, ClickUp, Slack etc – great for
Can you recommend a simple, affordable project management tool? Read More »
Cost Quality and Time Customers always want all three – a lovely job, nice and cheap and as soon as possible – but in reality it’s impossible. Something has to
I love jazz, because it’s different every time, even when the same people are playing the same song – and I find Classical music mostly rather dull because you’re reading
PMP (Project Management Professional) is definitely the best Project Management qualification to have, if you’re going to have a qualification at all. For bigger PM jobs it can be a
PMP exam – why you NEED exam prep, you will NEVER pass the exam without it! Read More »
APM vs Agile – your choice! (I know which one I prefer) Break it down into the tasks = granularity Critical path Dependencies Estimates – and add on contingency: half
CPM (Critical Path Method) is the idea of finding the critical path = the longest path = how long the project must take, but putting all of the dependences into
The top PM qualification in the world, for sure, is PMP: Project Management Professional. It’s awarded by PMI, the Project Management Institute, who are American, but it’s recognised all over
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Is it really as unpopular as people say when they attend my courses? I decided to do a proper survey on linked….. I actually think it’s fine for simple Gantt
Results of my recent survey on Linkedin: So it’s quite a mixed bag; a few are really doing pure agile with no plan, just staying flexible and making it up
I’d better not mention where exactly, but a large Council near here was building a big new road… it was going to cost £20m over 5 years. After the first
There’s no doubt that you need two kick off meetings – the first one to decide what the project exactly is (this might require some debating between the stakeholders) and
Fitting three into two – brief, business case, PID vs kick off meetings Read More »
I joke that every time someone says the O-word a kitten dies. But I say that for a reason – so you have a little twinge of anxiety every time
