Globalisation for many project management professionals is likely to require interaction with people from different backgrounds and cultures, possibly involving virtual teams, organisational collaboration or complex matrix structures where hierarchy and positional power count for little.
If you're reading this blog I can assume that you, at some point recently, managed some risks.
‘How do you value benefits?’.
It is difficult to envisage how a modern project would be managed without at some point creating a chart of tasks to be done in delivering the project’s declared benefits.
Ah the Gantt chart.
There are many different techniques and tools that a project manager can use to control a project schedule on a day-to-day basis and for managing dependencies, change and risks.
When our long term customer the Government of New Brunswick (GNB) produced a white paper on their implementation of our project management software it held a surprise.
I hate being late.
Which aspects of project management are relevant to dealing with climate change? The answer is virtually all of them, and this publication, "Climate change and what the project management profession should be doing about it", by Professor Peter Morris - recently published by APM - looks into it in more detail.
The first ever draft international standard on knowledge management has been released for comments.