by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 30, 2020 | Build a Career, This article contains affiliate links.
I write a lot about how to be better at your job, how to excel at interview, how to improve your skills and so on, and I interview a lot of experts who talk about those kinds of things. Today I want to talk about the opposite: what you should avoid doing at work. I’ve...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 29, 2020 | Build a Career, Project Management Skills
This is a guest post from Charlie Davidson. Charlie Davidson Have you ever heard of a T-shaped developer? It’s a common phrase used in software development where the developer has broad experience in their role but is also profoundly skilled in one specific area. The...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 22, 2020 | Build a Career, This article contains affiliate links.
What is Imposter Syndrome? Imposter Syndrome is not a medical condition. It is a term for the feeling you have when you believe that you do not really know what you are doing. It is self-doubt. You know how you feel when you get a new project or a whole lot more...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 22, 2020 | Build a Career, Mentoring, Project Management Skills
It would be nice to think that every company has a formal mentoring scheme, and that as a new project manager you can tap into the experience of more experienced people. However, that isn’t always the case. As a result, people managing projects for the first time...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 12, 2020 | Build a Career, This article contains affiliate links.
There are lots of routes into project management, as I explored recently in an article on how to become a project manager. But reading about what you should do to break into project management isn’t the same as hearing real stories of people who took that leap and got...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 4, 2020 | Build a Career, Software, This article contains affiliate links., trends
We aren’t managing projects now in the same way that people managed projects years ago. The approaches taken by many companies and professional bodies to managing projects are different now to when I first started out in the field in 2000ish. So why has that happened...
