Gren Gale
Project Management Blog
Working from Home – Choosing the right videoconferencing set-up
With the Covid-19 pandemic in full swing, working from home has become a major factor in allowing many companies to keep operations going. So what should you consider for Videoconferencing? Buying a packageI can’t stress enough how important a good...
You don’t show leadership by hitting people over the head
Leadership "You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault not leadership". That’s a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of Allied forces during World War 2, when let’s face it there was a lot of hitting people over the...
Remote Project Management is coming. Are you ready?
Teams are increasingly dispersed around the worldThe times when a project team were all located together in the same office are fast disappearing and increasingly project managers are being asked to organise disparate groups in many different locations...
5 life threatening requirements everyone forgets
If you’re looking to buy something and you don’t know what you want, there’s an excellent chance that you’ll get something you don’t want. That’s why it’s so important to know what you want before talking to a supplier. However there is a class of requirements that...
Good marketing wins you business, great project management retains it
You don’t have to go very far if you’re involved in business to bump into a marketing person. The internet abounds with digital marketing experts, some almost at superstar level (have a look at Neil Patel’s publicity!) who have apparently turned just about every type...
Do most of your projects end in chaos and panic?
Whatever they do it always seems to ends up in chaos and panic It’s not uncommon to meet company directors who complain that whatever they do their projects always end in chaos and panic with half of the company eventually being dragged in to try to sort out...
Why so many projects fail before they’ve even started
Don't shoot yourself in the foot Having a poor idea of what a project is going to cost and how long its going to take to deliver is the best way to shoot yourself in the foot before it’s even started. Poor estimation and planning are major reasons...
11 ways of staying awake at meetings
In a recent survey of over 2,000 people, 20% admitted to having fallen asleep at a meeting, with men apparently slightly more likely to nod off than women. When you consider that middle managers spend around 35% of their time in meetings and senior managers more like...
Five steps to tame the chaos – how to make projects work
Projects are naturally chaotic. If you want to retain customers and keep your staff sane, then you need bring order to that chaos and that’s the job of project management. There’s a lot of over-complicated rubbish out there about how to run projects, so here are five...
Agile or Waterfall? Neither…it’s your culture, stupid!
About twenty years ago as a callow youth, I went for a job interview with a big bank. I was working for a large Software House/Consultancy where processes were very ordered and strictly followed. ISO 9001 was a prized compliance, used to sell how structured...