by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 4, 2024 | Glossary, teams, This article contains affiliate links.
Projects are made up of tasks. Lots of them. Staying on top of your tasks as a team is so important if you want to hit your project deadlines. But keeping the whole team on track can be a challenge. I know, I’ve been there! As a project manager with over 20 years...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Nov 26, 2023 | Glossary, teams
Projects can be a hotbed of conflict. From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. And project managers contribute hugely to...
by Mahendra Gupta | Nov 2, 2023 | teams
Managing resources in professional services firms is crucial for maintaining sustainability and achieving anticipated employee performance goals. But unfortunately, many resource managers have to rely on approximation and guesswork because they don’t have the right...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Oct 9, 2023 | teams
Why would you want to backfill a role? For one position I backfilled, we wanted a particular specialist role to come and work in a project delivery capacity for a year, so we had the right skills on the project team. Backfilling means there is no gap in the team. You...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 20, 2023 | Agile, Glossary, Stakeholders, teams, This article contains affiliate links., Training
Agile methods need Agile teams — teams that think differently and work in ways that support responsive delivery. An agile mindset, and a set of shared values, principles, and often Agile tools, help Agile teams succeed. So why are agile teams different to other types...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Oct 19, 2020 | Stakeholders, teams
“The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can have,” said Alfonso Bucero, speaking at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in London. Understanding others takes time and effort, he added. But it improves your ability to communicate with them. His...