Category Archives: Project Management

Getting Things Done Through Others: A Framework For Influencing

Posted on May 2, 2012 by kinley

Project managers are rarely in direct control of their project team members. Team members are seconded on to the project, or loaned from another department. If you aren’t their direct boss, how do you get them to do anything? Continue reading →

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5 Myths About Using Social Media on Projects

Posted on April 10, 2012 by kinley

Everyone is talking about using social media at work. There are still some barriers to adopting new technologies though. Today we are going to look at 5 myths about using social media on projects. Continue reading →

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Dealing With Conflict On Projects

Posted on March 21, 2012 by kinley

Wouldn’t it be great if everyone got on? If projects had no points of conflict? Well, if you have ever worked on a project where everything was perfect all the time and no conflict arose, give us a call. We want to know how you did it. Continue reading →

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Gantt Charts: What’s The Alternative?

Posted on March 7, 2012 by kinley

When Henry Gantt plotted out projects in the steel industry using bars to show the progress of tasks, I doubt he realized that he was going to revolutionize how projects were managed. Gantt charts display horizontal bars that provide a graphical Continue reading →

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5 Tips for Successful Status Meetings

Posted on February 22, 2012 by kinley

Meeting your project team or key stakeholders to discuss status is a critical part of managing a project. But everyone hates attending a meeting for the sake of it. Here are 5 tips for making your status meetings as good as possible, and completely painless. Continue reading →

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Protecting Your Project’s Reputation (and your own)

Posted on February 7, 2012 by kinley

Here at Kinley consulting, we blog. We have an email newsletter and we’re on Facebook. We’re also on Google+ and Twitter, and we appreciate that these channels give us the opportunity to interact more effectively with customers and people who Continue reading →

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Improvising in Project Management

Posted on January 4, 2012 by kinley

Letting your project team improvise on projects sounds a little unconventional. After all, the point of having a plan and good change control procedure is so that the team knows where it is headed and stays on track. Continue reading →

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5 Tools For Quality Management

Posted on December 19, 2011 by kinley

We all like to think we do a quality job on projects, but in reality what ‘quality’ means to one person is not necessarily the same as what ‘quality’ means to another. So it is important to establish at the … Continue reading →

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Diverse Teams Mean Better Project Results

Posted on December 6, 2011 by kinley

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got,” goes the saying. If you think in the same way as you always have, you will find it difficult to come up with new solutions to problems. Continue reading →

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Enterprise System – Standalone Behaviour

Posted on November 22, 2011 by kinley

Probably the most obvious, and talked about change, after the release of Oracle Primavera P6 R8.0 was the shift of administration from the desktop client to the web application. This shift was further emphasised in P6 R8.1 when the Web Access application Continue reading →

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