Anyone who has undergone PMP® training will recall that 75% to 90% of a project manager’s time is spent communicating. That means dealing with stakeholders and the project team. As we have seen in Part 1 and Part 2, problem behaviours come in many forms. On this page: Managing ...

Dealing with people can sometimes be difficult. For a Project Management Professional (PMP)®, troublesome stakeholders can lead to sleepless nights and tempt us into easier ways of life, like juggling chainsaws. However, as we saw in the last article, focusing on problem behaviours and confronting these will help us ...

If you are a Project Manager then part of your role is the management of your project team. This is why Project Resource Management is such a crucial part of the Project Management Professional (PMP)© courses we run. We explain how to acquire, develop and manage a project team ...

During World War I, officers frequently climbed out of their trenches and charged at the enemy lines, armed with nothing but a swagger stick. On these occasions, I’m sure a fleeting moment of doubt passed through their minds: would the troops follow him into the charge? Or even, if ...

On this page: Once upon a time, in the state of Transylvania, Project Management Professionals (PMPs)® had identified a significant risk to their projects. The existence of the vampire, Count Dracula, was creating quite a few problems on the human resource front and many projects were running behind schedule because ...

On this page: Agile practitioners who use the Scrum project management methodology are familiar with the the “definition of done”. Basically, every piece added to the product or service during the project has to conform to a well-defined set of acceptance criteria. In this way, nothing gets added into ...