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Managing Change during Projects This time of year, one thing you can be sure of, is that the leaves will change colour and fall to the ground. Similarly to the certainty of the leaves changing colour, during the lifecycle of a project, there will always be changes within your project. As a project manager how […]

As part of managing a project one of the most important governing tasks is to plan and chair project meetings. There are many different types of meetings that a project manager may need to conduct during the lifecycle of a project. Below is a list of some of the meetings: • Project Team, to keep […]

Have you ever been in a situation where some of your key project resources are due to go on holidays at a critical time during the project? It is that time of year when people are going on holidays so can you prevent this from happening? The answer is YES. With some planning and communication […]

Recently, a colleague asked me, what is a “Project Health Check”? I said, “It’s like a Spring Clean on a Project”. This reminded me of when I was growing up and my mother saying, “It’s time for a Spring Clean”. Nothing was safe, every wall, ceiling, cupboard and shelf was cleaned and painted, then everything […]

Very often when this question is asked, a project manager will show their project schedule in the format of a gantt chart with a list of tasks and milestones.  This is in fact the project schedule which is an essential part of the project plan, but a project plan should contain more information. Below is […]

The tell-tale signs of project failure  Some projects end successfully, and meet the expectations of all stakeholders, however many others fail.  When the danger of failure is identified during the project, the project can be recovered before it is too late. If the key factors to be managed over the project life cycle are not […]