by Elizabeth Harrin | Nov 23, 2022 | How To, This article contains affiliate links.
Have you ever started a project and thought: how is all this going to come together? It’s a question I get asked a lot by the project managers I mentor, because frankly, the beginning of a project is an unsettling time. You don’t know enough to pull it all together....
by Elizabeth Harrin | Nov 10, 2022 | How To
When an employee steps out of their role for some reason, but their job still needs to be done, sometimes companies will backfill the position. This means that they will hire someone for a temporary period of time until the original employee is able to return to their...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Oct 5, 2022 | How To, This article contains affiliate links.
This is a question I’m hearing quite a lot at the moment: How do I turn my company’s strategy into actual projects? It’s good to have a strategy, of course. But a strategy that stays in a fancy PowerPoint presentation isn’t helpful to anyone. That’s not a strategy,...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Sep 13, 2022 | How To, meetings, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time sitting in meetings where the topics discussed aren’t relevant to me. Sometimes in team meetings I’m even listening to discussions about projects that I’m not working on. And I confess to checking my emails and even Facebook during the...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Aug 24, 2022 | How To
It’s project completion time. That’s the last step of the ‘traditional’ predictive (waterfall) project lifecycle, but even agile projects close. This is the time that project managers wrap up the work. You’re at the end of your project. Your timesheet has a few...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Aug 9, 2022 | How To, PRINCE2, This article contains affiliate links.
Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2® manuals. There isn’t. Fixed date projects only get a passing mention in the Managing Successful Projects...
