How to manage work
This article was written in response to a question from a 3rd year Computer Science student and it uses terms …
Tag Archives: project management
Why is it often more difficult to manage a small project than a large one?
Ian Mitchell asks on Linkedin. I have spent the last 20 years a freelance consultant managing small hi-tech projects in large …
Books on innovation
Continuing my theme of useful books. Here a couple of very valuable books about managing innovation. The Lean Start-up Business …
The philosophy of project management
I think that this book is a very interesting discussion of the essential, as opposed to accidental nature of project …
Who cleans the toilets at Valve Corporation?
There is recently been some press coverage of Valve Corporation which famously has no bosses. As a management consultant I …
SCRUM, PRINCE2 and ElephantPM
I have received several questions recently about how agile project management methodologies such as SCRUM can be used with deliverable-centric …
Choosing Manual Scheduled or Autoscheduled in Microsoft Project
A Microsoft Project task has many options and I am often asked how to choose the correct ones, Task Mode …
A review of JavaScript drawing libraries for flowcharts, Gantt charts and timelines
Overview I manage my projects using my own ElephantPM project management methodology. This is a similar in many ways to …
How to build a 100 m skyscraper in 30 days
In the past I worked in project management in the construction industry and having seen the traditional process I find …
The difference between “policy” and “strategy”
I am writing a book on project management (ElephantPM) and I have been looking for a succinct explanation of the …
