Are You Really Collaborating? Too Much Communication Also Kills Projects
Read my guest post, published on AITS website on collaboration, and how it can help or hinder your project.
How project managers can give constructive feedback
As a project manager, you have to manage a team. You will have to assign tasks and coordinate activities. You will also have to evaluate performance and provide feedback to employees. In this post, you will find 7 tips on how to provide constructive feedback, and successfully develop a productive team for your projects.
It’s Time For The PMO To Deliver The Value They Promise
For 10 years now the PMO has been integral to the way projects get delivered in organisations. Unfortunately, too many of them still get in the way.
Book Review – The Power of Project Leadership
The Book Susanne Madsen published at the beginning of January 2015 her second book titled The Power of Project Leadership: 7 keys to help you transform from project manager to project leader. The book is available in print version and ebook. You can find both on...
The ultimate level of leadership
Beyond being an expert In project management, we usually come to the profession from another path. We are first experts in a particular field. We start to work on various projects and, based on our successes, we are assigned more and more responsibilities. It is the...
2014 UK Project Manager Salaries ebook
Career in project management A website on project management often focuses mostly on knowledge related to project management. We do the same on Project-Aria, with the addition of leadership and productivity. But the project manager is also a person, so I added two...
Guest Post: Planning Project Human Resource Management
In creating your staffing management plan, be sure you understand the constraints that imposed on your access to human resources.
Project-Aria and Project Management on Twitter
Presence on Twitter This website is of course the main platform for Project-Aria. However, I am also actively participating on Twitter. If you are on Twitter, and interested in Project Management on Twitter, take a look! You can find Project-Aria on twitter at the...
2014 – A new year for this project management website
A new year for our project management website 2014 is starting, and it is the beginning of a new year for all, including this website. I am happy with the progress in developing this website on project management, leadership and productivity tools. The very first...
Mega-Project: delivering billions of gifts
This is Christmas Eve. And this project has to start. We mean: NOW! It is an emergency and a priority. It is time to get ready for this ultimate project that makes any Ironman competition looks like a walk in the park. Someone has to deliver...
The dream of being a project manager
Who dreams in their youth of becoming a project manager? Really! It seems most project managers are an accidental project manager. Or they come to project management through another profession. As an example, someone studied accounting and then works in an accounting...
Favorite challenge in project management
A friend of mine asked a few project managers this interesting question: “What problems and challenges do you look forward to most, while working in project management?” I was asked the question, and have been thinking about this during my morning public...
Podcast : Guerilla Project Management
I have been discovering lately podcasts. It is an interesting format, and let me maximize my time by listening to something when I am in transit, running, training, or other activities like that. My first podcast on project management was the PM for the...
Reading PMBOK
As part of my plan to obtain my PMP certification, I started reading the 5th edition of PMBOK a while ago. Finally, I have read all chapters and am now reading the annexes! I have been a bit delayed in my study plan (isn’t obtaining a certification a...
Book : The Lazy Project Manager
I love productivity. It always has been one of my quest, to perform work in the most efficient way. That is why I love computer tools, and learned some database programming. It was to save me and be able to do some analysis in the shortest time possible. I had...
Discovering podcast
I must say that I never really discovered podcast. I never integrated them in my schedule. I tried a few but never really subscribe to and routinely listen to all podcasts of a specific publisher. Yes, I have been using the internet since 1989, and yes I am an...
Our mind
This is a slightly different kind of article. As project manager, we know that we have to deal with many stakeholders, many with different priorities and views on the project. We also know that we need to have a good communication plan, tailored to the needs...
Teambox
TeamBox is a great project management and team collaboration web application. It is good for small and large teams. The price structure is good. It is based on the number of users, with unlimited projects including in all Pro plans. There’s also a free plan,...
PMP Certification
Personally, I believe that you cannot have too much knowledge. Any diploma or certification you can get is an asset, which then you can use to monetize in your job search. Yes, you must have a strategic plan for your career, so that these diplomas and...
Scrumwise
Managing projects with online tools is a very powerful approach. It gives you access anywhere to your project information, enable team collaboration, and remove you for the duty to maintain an IT infrastructure. Many of these tools are based on the waterfall...
eLearning4pms
Here is an interesting website on project management, with many resources to support your learning of project management. Take a look. See also elearning4pms on Twitter @elearning4pms On YouTube Margaret Meloni Welcome to eLearning4PMs;...
Jedi Project Management
Can Yoda inspire you in managing project? This article has collected a few quotes from Yoda and wrote some comments on how they can help us project managers. My favorite from the article is: “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future” – Project managers...
PM Hut – The Project Management Hut
Are you looking for excellent website to read and learn about project management? I would like to recommend one of the best I have found: PM Hut – The Project Management Hut It constantly publishes new and excellent articles on project management. If...
Boost your career with certifications
In today’s world, the pace of innovation and new knowledge is very fast, and ever-increasing. It is essential to manage your career in a way that respects that new reality. It is very dangerous in a world of innovation to just get your normal school or...GetResponse
