Agile – do they secretly have a plan?
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 […]
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MrGantt fixes the road
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
Fitting three into two – brief, business case, PID vs kick off meetings
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
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The Forbidden O-WORD
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
“We’re on 54 when we should be on 50”
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
Why my Project Management book is different – 10 reasons
This looks like any other Project Management handbook doesn’t it? But it’s not…. I’ve wanted to set the record straight on a few things for years now, and have finally
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The ultimate project management handbook, I hope!
Yes, I have finished writing The Quickstart Guide to Project Management – it took a while, it’s 300 pages, 100,000 words, and it really does tell you everything you need
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Don’t jump straight to the Gantt chart, even in Microsoft Project makes it easy to do that
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
Project Management app review
My project management training app is reviewed here https://www.appslikethese.com/10-day-project-management-app-review/ and it’s one of set of 8. I’ve also made them on Influencing, Time Management, Assertiveness, Leadership, Presentation Skills, Selling and
How to get and keep PMP
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:
Have you got a Gantt chart?
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
Maintain your PMP with PDUs
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
Why are projects so financially dangerous?
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
Critical Paths and Gantt Charts – why you need BOTH
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
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Project Management software and A.I. – how much help can you expect?
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
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Personal Qualities of a Great Project Manager
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
