(This post contains affiliate hyperlinks. Please read my full disclosure. What are your key skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously? What tools do your use to prioritize your work and what are the key skills? How do you manage to get through the day when you have to juggle all of your tasks? The. Things?…
Month: June 2022
Complex Project Environments: Management
How can you manage a project that feels like it is in fog? It’s difficult to keep track of everything when you don’t really know what you know. Focus on what you can control. You focus on the small things that you can do to change the current issues. You just follow your heart. Carole…
Managing a Film Project
How can you ensure that a film is produced on schedule, within budget, and within the desired scope? These issues are discussed with Michael Savva, a short film producer. SPOTO: Well, hello! SPOTO: Hello! I’m SPOTO, from A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. Today I’m here with Michael Savva, a short film festival finalist. Your…
Making Workshops Work webinar
To follow along, turn on the subtitles that are automatically created or watch at 1.5x speed! Below is an automated transcript (sorry for typos). It starts at 2 minutes 30 and avoids the intro waffle that we use to get people into the room. Please note that only Project Management Rebels members have access to…
Make your vision a reality with User Story Mapping
(This post contains affiliate hyperlinks. Please read my full disclosure. Frances Place contributed this guest post. I have spent years working in project teams and know that it is essential to have a clear understanding of the scope of the project from the beginning. Frances Place, White October Account Manager. I’ve worked on many projects…
Agile Project Management for Marketing
This guest post is by Monica Georgieff (Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas). Monica GeorgieffWhat is the outlook for marketers who manage projects in this year? The outlook for modern business is to deal with the effects of the pandemic, uncertainty, crisis, global instability, and volatile global conditions. These changes have brought us a new…
Interview with Dr Lynda Bourne about Advising Upwards
Today, I interview Dr Lynda Bourne. She is the author of Advising upwards: A Framework to Understand and Engage Senior Management Stakeholders (Gower 2011, 2011). Lynda is the CEO of Stakeholder Management Pty Ltd. This is a training and consulting firm based in Australia. Lynda, your book focuses on helping project managers communicate more effectively…
Janice Haddon interviews you about advice for returning to work
Janice HaddonAs my regular readers know, I have been on maternity leave since January and am now slowly resuming work. Janice Haddon is a coach and management consultant who specializes in helping people return successfully to work. Here’s what Janice Haddon had to say about returning work after a long absence. Janice, why is it…
Advances in Project Management [Book review]
(This post contains affiliate hyperlinks. Please read my full disclosure. I was very excited to receive Advances in Project Management because I like to keep abreast of what others think is important in my field. It wasn’t really new material, which was disappointing. It’s a compilation from extracts and summaries of the Advances in Project…
Ace the PMP Exam [Book review]
(This post contains affiliate hyperlinks. Please read my full disclosure. The PMBOK(r), Guide to Aceing the PMP Exam Jack Risos is the Author Summary Books that are recommended for PMP and CAPM Prep Recommendations for PMP Training Courses The publishers placed ‘SPOTO, PMP” on the cover of my first book Collaboration Tools for Project Managers….