These 5 tips will give you a head start:
Be honest
Always be totally honest and upfront with your customer right from the start. Tell them if their project is not feasible or if you don’t have all of the resource, money and time needed to deliver it successfully from the outset. Set their expectations by telling […]

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But how do you measure your progress against budget to know if you’re on track? In this post, we’ll tell you how. So read on to learn…
How to Measure Progress against Budget
A “project” by definition will always have a limited timeframe and a fixed budget. The “budget” is the amount of money that the […]

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Tip 1: One a Week
What do you have a passion for? Is it arts, sciences, sport or something wacky? Whatever it is, try and move heaven and earth to make it happen once a week, every week. Tell yourself: this is the one time in the week where it’s ‘MY TIME’’ - then stick to […]

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What is a “Work / Life Balance”? To us, it’s “getting the maximum enjoyment from your work time and personal time, every day”. This means really enjoying the time you have at work, and the time you spend after hours, so that you’re getting the most out of what life has to offer. The reverse […]

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Ever had a project deliver late or over budget? If you haven’t, then you’re lucky because the majority of projects are delivered over budget or over schedule.
So when you’re in the middle of project delivery and things start slipping, what do you do? Here are four tips to help you out.
 
Step 1: Focus the team
A […]

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There are tons of ways of delivering projects and one of them is using an “Agile” approach. To show you how agile can change your project life, we’ve listed here 3 examples of the agile approach. They suit projects of any type, size or industry:
Sprints
Have you ever been involved in a project that has so […]

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Why should you prioritize your projects - don’t they all have to be delivered on time and within budget? Yes, but any smart Project Manager will recognize that they only have limited time, resources and budget available to do it. So they need to set priorities, to ensure that their most important projects don’t run […]

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As a Project Manager, would you like to spread work evenly across your team? This task is called “resource leveling” and it’s one of the hardest things you will have to do. To help you out, we’ve listed…5 Tips for Leveling your ResourcesIt’s easy enough using tools like Microsoft Project, to create a Project Plan […]

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 Welcome to 2008. As a Project Manager, the New Year is a challenging time for your project. You have staff away on leave, you may have deliverables from last year that you need to catch up on and the clock is already ticking. So how do you catch up and then give your project the […]

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Most people find themselves in Project Management by chance.
They were offered a role, took it because it looked like fun and
now they’re running on “go-go juice” (pure adrenalin) trying
to coordinate people, time and money to meet the expectations
of the customer. It’s pretty hard to schedule a career around this.
However the Christmas period usually gives people […]

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