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Book Review: Project Stakeholder Management

Book Review: Project Stakeholder Management

In their book, Project Stakeholder Management, Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen say that projects often fail because stakeholders are not adequately considered. “A recurring theme in these failures is project managers who have not taken sufficiently into account the interests and motivations of the persons or entities that can affect or be affected by…

Book Review: Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits
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Book Review: Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits

I was a volunteer. I lost count of how many hours of community service I donated over 13 years of providing first aid cover at school fetes, amateur dramatic theatre productions, Remembrance parades, or in teaching others. But I don’t volunteer any more. Instead, I have a standing order that pays an amount to charity…

Book review: Project Management Interview Questions Made Easy

Book review: Project Management Interview Questions Made Easy

Structured around 7 steps to a successful interview, Project Management Interview Questions Made Easyby Dr Andrew Makar is about more than the interview questions themselves. It is a whole guide to getting a new job. It’s a short book which makes it easy to read and it is written in a very relaxed, helpful style….

Managing your personal brand: an interview with Dr Andrew Makar

Managing your personal brand: an interview with Dr Andrew Makar

Today I’m interviewing Dr Andrew Makar, IT programme manager, blogger and author of Project Management Interview Questions Made Easy, about managing your personal brand at work and building a professional project management profile. Andy, why is it important to have a professional project management profile? Would you hire an individual dressed up in a bed…

What is customer-centric project management?

What is customer-centric project management?

This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management, co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). Let’s get some basics established. Projects must deliver value. Projects must involve stakeholders, even if that stakeholder population is made up of only one person. These two things are the premise for customer-centric project management. The third premise…