Learn Project Management using an app!
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Training the Falkland Islands
Thank you very much Chris, your delivery was superb, and your personality really carried the day. All the delegates thoroughly enjoyed the session. – Kieran Afternoon Chris, Our Development Assistant
Planning resource availability for projects
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
Planning the resources for multiple projects – a Gantt of Gantts
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
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What is a REALISTIC estimate??
You are thinking about how long a task will take, and what to tell your boss or customer…. Should you add a nice big safety margin so you definitely won’t
How do you know if your project is REALLY overspent?
This is a much more tricky question that it first appears – and very expensive if you get it wrong – as explained in this video. Discovering hidden overspends from
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Is anybody actually USING Prince2??
In the 20 years that I’ve been training people in Project Management (the APM process, not PRINCE2) I’ve been into hundreds of organisations of all types and sizes, and I
Agile principles
I’ve just been reading this article and I agree with pretty much all of it. Just two things to add: The author (unknown, 2016, Gil Broza I think) writes: For
Of Value to Valves!
“Thanks Chris for the training – probably the most entertaining training course we’ve ever attended!!” Brooksbank Valves, Skipton, Yorkshire (and that was Project Management!) wonderful company, wonderful people, we had
Which vegetable is yours?
Use this chart to find the Management Vegetables for the subject you want to learn about: Leadership The Plum of Performance The Coaching Cherries The Carrots of Motivation The Banana
The Planning Tortoise (don’t rush it)
These are the ingredients of good planning: Time – critical path, contingency, crashing if required Objective and priorities, how will success be measured? Resources – required vs available. Includes money,
How to plan projects and processes
Some projects are unique one-offs: that’s the classic project. Some projects are more of a process really: although they have a start and finish, and are quite complicated, they are just the
When to use Agile, when to use Waterfall??
Here’s a helpful infographic: Of course there ARE quite a lot of small software projects, and these projects often do have unclear objectives, so Agile does have its place. But
