Category: Project Communication
Ups and Downs of Managing Volunteer Projects
This is a guest article by Glevys Rondon. Glevys worked for over two decades as director and founder at the Latin American American Mining Monitoring Programme, an international organisation based in London aiming to empower and improve the lives of women...
What Project Management Can Learn From Cooking
Take a look at the two lists below: Lemon Tart6 Eggs125ml Double Cream250g Icing SugarJuice and Zest of 4 Lemons100g Butter175g Flour Automation of Engineering Analysis Functions1 Full Time C++ Software Developer1 Part Time Project Manager1 Development LaptopDepartment Engineering Reference BooksCustomer...
Leaving Project Schedules Alone
While it might be an exaggeration to call a project plan a battle plan, no project plan is ever perfect or will perfectly encompass the project from beginning to end without the need for changes or updates. No battle plan ever...
How to Bring Hidden Projects into the Open
Sometimes projects arise within organisations without being specifically planned as such. Perhaps someone has a good idea that should actually be applied company wide and not just in one department, or maybe a senior manager forces a change at the top...
How to Deal with Uninterested Stakeholders
Every project has stakeholders, yet all stakeholders are not necessarily willing participants in projects. Depending on their importance and influence on a project, uninterested stakeholders can have anything from an irritating to a completely demoralising effect on a project and can...
Getting things done
We humans are prone to think that we are close to a certain solution when in fact we are still far away. This leads us to continue to invest time in one task without noticing that we will never come to...
Using Lying in Feedback
There is an old game called “two truths and one lie”. It goes like this: a person makes three statements. From the three, two statements will be true and one will be a lie. Other players must then guess which of...