Project Management

When you’re doing a project there are three things this could mean – two of them are very useful and important, and the third one is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! Let me […]

Microsoft Project encourages you to jump straight to the Gantt chart, without bothering with post-it notes and critical paths first. Usually when people are doing this they make a mini-Gantt

I had a great chat with Bonnie and Amy, and we unpicked EVERYTHING, you can view it here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chriscrofttraining_chris-croft-and-bonnie-biafore-will-guide-activity-6805748601793323008-cQ2J Some of the key points are: To get PMP you need

This is the first thing I always ask a project manager. Well, a person who is ‘managing’ a project. It’s the best test to find out whether they really are

Once you get your PMP Project Management qualification you need to keep it, with 20 hours per year of continuing profession education (or personal development units). https://www.pmi.org/certifications/certification-resources/maintain/requirements So every 3

How can a company suddenly find that it’s a million pounds in the red?  Or ten million??   It’ll almost certainly be because of a project. Everything is a project or a

I think the biggest secret of project management is that you need BOTH a critical path diagram AND a Gantt chart.   Here’s why: If you only have a critical path

Project Management software and A.I. can help, but only if… PM Software like Microsoft Project can’t: It can only ever be a drawing tool and ‘what-if tool’. So in this

On my training courses I joke that a Project Manager needs the following three qualities: A mild case of OCD Pessimist Assertive And like many jokes, there’s an element of

If you’ve got some projects which can be moved and some which can’t, it makes sense to plan first for the un-moveable ones, and see how many people you need

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How do you know if you can do all of the projects you want to do? And what if they require different types of people? Here’s a way you can