Category Archives: Project Management

Accentuate the positive, build on the negative!

When delivering services, it is important to focus on the positive contributions that are made to clients. Often too much time is spent on negatives that can create a poor impression with the client. Negatives need to be resolved, of course, but positive messages need to be part of the engagement.

All fuss and bother!

Culture of a company or country can make a large difference to how a project is run. Inevitably in any culture, there

Creative, not prohibitive

Project managers need to do more than just follow process in order to allow a project to succeed. To get the best out of their project team, they must allow for creativity. To encourage team participation. To create an open project team environment.

Compost management

Projects a like the compost heap in your garden. They need the right ingredients, the right management to produce the right outputs.

Show me the money

Tracking, managing and understanding the costs associated with your project delivery is vital to ensuring profitability. Without understanding the costs, your business will never really come to grips with effectively managing projects to budget.

Organise tasks or the team?

when creating a project work schedule, some project managers look at the project resources available before creating the plan. However, this can create problems. How do you know what type of project team you need unless you have defined the work plan in advance?

Establishing a border

Defining roles and responsibilities in a project and in general operations is vital to ensure a smooth delivery of services or projects. Without definition, it becomes muddled and accountability is difficult to prove,