What do you do if you need staff, students and the global research community to all have access to collaborate on projects, but without making everything complicated or publicly available? If you are Gérald Morin, you implement a suite of Microsoft solutions. Gérald, Quality and Methods Manager at the Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), delivered a…
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This book review of Emma Ledden’s The Presentation Book will show you the 7 rules for presentation success. It won’t give you quick fixes but it will help your audience avoid death by PowerPoint.
In this article, guest contributor Piers McLeish explains the data behind his recent survey. Following a recent survey we looked at areas for improvement, where a lack of visibility over data is causing problems as well as the most important features and factors key stakeholders should look for, in both new business software and vendors….
On Monday I attended the Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit in London. Richard Hunter from Gartner was one of the speakers during the opening keynote and he said that when the Standish Group’s first Chaos report came out in the 1990’s it flagged project management as the largest risk facing businesses at the time….
Find out how to create a project communications plan in 7 easy steps. A communications plan helps you get the message across about your project, so it is an important part of making sure your project is successful. Proper communications planning isn’t hard to do and it is best to take a thought-through, strategic approach.
The short review The Project Management Book by Richard Newton is my new favourite project management book. The long review The Project Management Book: How to Manage Your Projects to Deliver Outstanding Results by Richard Newton is very, very good. It’s issue-based but intensely practical. There are 10 sections, organized thematically, so you can either…
“Is the entrance that way, love?” said the delivery man as I was walking past a local school. I replied that it was. I didn’t have the children with me at the time but I must have looked like a harried mother who would know how to get to the school. When I got home…
Is your summer stretching ahead with one cocktail networking event after another? No? Mine neither. However, there is always some kind of requirement to met new people as a project manager, even if it’s just your next project team. And as author Will Kintish says, networking is simply about building relationships. I asked him for…
Got a project issue to resolve? Need to come up with a definitive list of project requirements? Let’s hold a brainstorming session! Actually, let’s not. Brainstorming, according to Shawn Doyle and Steven Rowell in their book, Jumpstart Your Creativity: 10 Jolts To Get Creative And Stay Creative (Jumpstart Series), has been done so many times…
Which one of these is the odd one out? “Where is the TV remote control?” “Where are all the drink mats?” “Where is Oliver’s lion?” “Where is my library ticket?” The thing they have in common is… they are all on the floor, except the TV remote control which is under the sofa. This is…
“Change is in the air,” according to Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell in their book Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future. “We question the status quo because the business world will soon be very different.” It’s a book that aims to set out what leaders…
I thought I had to be organised with one baby, now I have two it is completely different. There’s a lot to think about, from planning toddler meals and feeding the rest of the family to a near-military operation just to leave the house. Last night after putting Oliver down I opened a brand new…