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Tips - Filtering your Gantt Chart
Today we wanted to look further into our filtering feature and how can you use it in your online planning to get a better overview of your Gantt chart.
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Happy Project Management by Peter Taylor
How many project managers does it take to change a light bulb? A better question to ask is perhaps ‘how many project managers does it take to have a good project?’ I think just the one, if they have a real sense of humour and an appreciation for the value of ‘fun’ in a project team.
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Giving Feedback by Peter Taylor
The other day I was in town and a major sweet manufacturer was handing out samples of their new product, free and with no ongoing commitment, and so it was proving very popular with the shoppers.
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Productive Laziness & The Art of Having Fun
Taking it all a little less seriously can be good for your project health. ‘I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by’ Douglas Adams (Author of ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’) You have to laugh; well I think you have to laugh.
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Green Bean PM by Peter Taylor
How should new project managers learn from the ‘Old beans’ When my kids were young they loved to play one particular game at the annual birthday parties. This game involved ‘Beans’ – all of the kids standing ready and waiting for instructions and then the cry would go up of ‘Beans’ and the game would begin.
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The Art of Good Project Closure by Peter Taylor
The value of lessons learned: the art of a good project closure
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The Campaign for Real Project Sponsors by Peter Taylor
We all know that critical to a project's success is having a good project manager but after that then it is pretty important to have a good project sponsor; but, like the saying goes, ‘you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your relatives’ and the same is true of project sponsors.
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Project Management and the Alien Encounter by Peter Taylor
I suspect that you will all know this story: Six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looked like by feeling different parts of the elephant's body.
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Why Plan? Project Planning Part 2 by Martin Webster
In my last post – Why Plan | Project Planning, part 1 – I explained how project planning helps us to predict and prepare for difficulties.
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Why Plan? Project Planning part 1 - by Martin Webster
Many people get hung up on project planning. Some say they don’t have the time to prepare one. Others think they are unnecessary. They assume the project plan is a complex document; one that accounts for every minutes of every day.
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Product-Based Project Planning by Susanne Madsen. An Introduction to Product-Based Planning.
In this blog post Susanne Madsen explains the importance of project planning and introduces five steps to producing an outline plan during the planning and initiation phase. The outline plan is based on the principles of product-based planning.
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'Project Management Rituals' by Elizabeth Harrin
The following is a guest post by Elizabeth Harrin, author of Social Media for Project Managers and Project Management in the Real World.
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Planning your Dissertation Part 6: 'Data Analysis' by Roy Horn
Data Analysis - it's all about finding a good story to tell!
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Planning your Dissertation Part 5: 'Dissertation Methods' by Roy Horn
Choosing a method to investigate your dissertation area is exciting, engaging and fun. It seems like, finally, you are making progress. In this euphoria of motivation the necessary critical elements can be forgotten.
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'Be More Productive' (part 3) Project Management Blog by Jason Womack
Before you plan, know what you don’t have to plan. In my coaching work, I find a common denominator to low productivity, inefficiencies in the workplace and meetings being run ineffectively:
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'Be More Productive' (part 2) Project Management Blog by Jason Womack
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far ... go together!
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Planning your Dissertation Part 4: 'Tackling the Literature' by Roy Horn
Most people writing a dissertation dread having to work on the Literature section. But, I assure you, there is no need to be frightened about the literature if you tackle it in a systematic and organised fashion.
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'Be More Productive' (part 1) project management blog by Jason Womack
Very few projects we work on, we work on in isolation. We manage our habits and routines, change our context and we tap in to our network to get things done.
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Planning your Dissertation Part 3: 'The Research Proposal' by Roy Horn
The research proposal is the key 'gateway' document to your dissertation. It sets out the main details of how your research will be conducted. In many universities the dissertation cannot be progressed until a supervisor has been allocated and the research proposal agreed between student and supervisor. It is also a key document in formulating and crystallizing your topic ideas into a 'doable' dis
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Planning your Dissertation Part 2 : 'Taming that Dissertation!' by Roy Horn
The first step in taming your dissertation is to define and refine the research question. This is just a posh way of saying what your research will do – so don’t let the wording put you off. All dissertations should have a clearly set out aim statement. For example:
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Planning your Dissertation - Part 1: 'Dissertations learn to love them' by Roy Horn
So you’re doing a dissertation that’s really exciting! But hang on, that is also really scary! At the start there looks to be a lot to do. How will you organise the biggest thing you have ever attempted?
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Guest Blog: 'Projects Are About People: Using Your Emotional Intelligence'
You are a Project Manager. You may not realize it, and you may have some other title engraved on your business card, but believe me—you are. Envision a Saturday morning.
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Don't be ambushed by rework! Build it into your project plan.
In my classes, I like to tell my students that stakeholders are like new puppies in the backyard: They gotta mark their territory and leave their scent on everything they see!
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How to Plan a Dissertation - by Mark Johnstone
So it’s happened. You’re standing at the portal to postgrad-dom. Endless possibilities present themselves for the subject of your studies. And you’re about to write a thesis that will change the way humanity perceives the world forever....or are you?
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Project Planning Guest Blog: 'Planning Your Passions' by Norman Viss
To-Do lists and New Year’s resolutions have much in common. We realize that something needs to be done, we resolve to do it (really, this time!) and we write it down. Somewhere.
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