by Elizabeth Harrin | Jan 14, 2022 | How To, This article contains affiliate links.
This article first appeared at Rebel’s Guide to Project Management The projects that you read about in the media are often high profile, with budgets in the multimillions or even billions. They all seem to be led by highly experienced project managers who have...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Sep 3, 2021 | How To, Skills, This article contains affiliate links.
Your new project was approved for funding. That in itself is a huge step. You wouldn’t believe the number of project managers I speak to on mentoring calls who struggle to get their budget approved. You can’t do much on a project without some funding behind you....
by Elizabeth Harrin | Aug 9, 2021 | How To, This article contains affiliate links.
Early on in my career, I had a call from the post room manager. She was confused – and angry. Bags and bags of extra mail had arrived, she didn’t have the staff in to sort it and she had heard that it might be something to do with me. It was. I was happy that my...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Aug 3, 2021 | How To, This article contains affiliate links.
What is the stakeholder salience model? The stakeholder saliency model was proposed by Mitchell, Agle and Wood (1997). They define salience as: the degree to which managers give priority to competing stakeholder claims. Their model looks at how vocal, visible and...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 29, 2021 | How To
How do you manage your projects? Whatever it is you’re managing you’ll probably use, or need, a tool to help you do it. Maybe it’s a Trello board, a Kanban board, a system of sticky notes…Asana, Toggl… a wall calendar and planner, or a combination of them all! What...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 19, 2021 | How To
We were due to go live with our pilot software launch but things didn’t feel right. We had the go/no go meeting and as I sat in the office, it just felt like we weren’t ready. My project sponsor was on holiday in Canada. I emailed him, because I wanted to be told that...
