What responsibilities will you have as a project manager? What does the role actually involve? We talked to four younger project managers about their early career lessons – and how they were developing as project leaders.
”If you can see it, you can be it.
*Read the newer, up to date, article on conflict management in project management here* It’s a common perception that any kind of conflict is bad and should be avoided at all costs.
After re-watching the original Star Wars trilogy and writing about the Empire’s approach to project management (read my first review here), in this blog I comment on the second film in the series — The Empire Strikes Back.
Forty-five per cent of project management professionals are ‘somewhat’ or ‘very’ dissatisfied with the current level of project management maturity in their organisation, according to The State of Project Management Annual Survey 2016, conducted by Wellingtone and the APM PMO Specific Interest Group.
We all know that organisations in this ever-competing world need to change now more quickly – and deal with larger changes to the way they work – in order to survive.
Greek philosopher Socrates was a man famed for knowing a lot, but even he said: The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
For a long time, lawyers have been cast as accidental project managers and over the last 18 months this has been ever-more apparent as the COVID-19 pandemic made in-house legal teams more vital than ever in helping navigate businesses through new risks and issues.
The only reason organisations exist is to meet the needs of stakeholders.
This month, I’m talking to project coordinators and their line managers.