Five unusual tips to kick-start your international project effectively
Hi I’m Bob Dignen, author of Managing Projects, jointly published by York Associates and Delta Publishing. Myself and my colleague Steve Flinders will be blogging here over the next two months on...
View ArticleManaging people in projects
This is my second post in this series and I’m going to look at managing people in projects. Many people bring projects down to two simple things: it’s about organising a series of tasks, and it’s about...
View ArticleManaging projects – keeping a focus on goals
Many professionals leading projects do so with a very strong goal focus. One of their core competences, as they see it, is to keep in mind at all times the budget, deadlines and scope which were...
View ArticleManaging projects – building better communication
If you read any book on project management, you will very quickly come across a chapter on communication, both the challenges and the importance of doing it well. Here are five ideas to help you and...
View ArticleMaking sense of conflict in international projects
Working in international projects is challenging, and with challenge comes the likelihood of conflict. Professionals working in projects need to understand the sources of potential conflict and have a...
View ArticleFinishing a project successfully
If you Google the statistics on the numbers of projects concluding successfully, you might struggle to find any article with positive statistics. Overwhelmingly, it seems, projects struggle and usually...
View Article
