It’s #pmchat on Twitter tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm UK time and this week’s topic is being hosted by me on the subject of Project Management Consultants Vs Freelancers Vs Full Time permanent staff. Reading this after the event? Check out the Storify from the Twitter chat. MORE
You can consider contracting or consulting. This tends to be based on your recent experiences and could be managing similar projects, setting up things like PMOs or if you’re thinking about consulting in project management, what business challenges you can solve. MORE
The right template, sugggestion, best practice or how to article can get you noticed too by hiring organizations, recruiters or companiesnin need of an expert consultant. Do you have something to say in a PM related or business strategy article but don't know how or where? MORE
What is the different between a project management consultant and a freelance/contract project manager? Typically, a consultant, in any business field, has been traditionally focused on advising organizations what to do in certain business areas that need initiating, changing or developing. MORE
The discussion may include a history of the proposed change, others that have been consulted, and options. I am speaking this week at the Projects to the Point (P2P) conference in Cairo, Egypt. The focus of the conference is the book "How Successful Organizations Implement Change" and the speakers (myself included) each wrote one of the chapters of the book by the same title. We have an interesting approach for implementing change where I'm working, a technique call Nemawashi. MORE
We were browsing the internet, searching for online consultants experienced mostly in technical and marketing outsourcing. Project Management consultants IT list outsourcing outsourcing consultant project management MORE
The upfront formal planning documents that we put together will differ from project to project, sometimes even the way we formalize and document requirements will differ if we are entering from the outside as a consulting project manager. MORE
By Paul Whiffen, Hartfield KM Consulting Ltd. Why should you integrate Knowledge Management (KM) into your Business Processes? Knowledge Management MORE
They accept assignments, work on them independently and collaboratively, consult each other and the Scrum Master when they have questions, and have to ward off distractions for the duration of the sprint. MORE
This initiative, known as the “ Off-payroll working in the public sector: reform of the intermediaries legislation ” which is currently open for consultation; is looking to change the status of workers who use a Personal Services Company (PSC) into some kind of pseudo employee. MORE
Trusted partners in business – Your PMO In this podcast, Elise speaks with Emma Arnaz-Pemberton from ERAP Consulting (PMO and P3O consultancy) to discuss PMO’s and how they can become trusted partners in business. Emma is a project, programme and portfolio specialist with extensive experience in the change management industry with a particular focus on […]. MORE
After many years as a project manager I was pleased to come across a project management methodology called “Delivering the 8” developed by a local consulting company called FGT. She worked for many years as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. Vera then decided to make a significant change in her career in order to juggle between work and family and after becoming an independent consultant, she envisioned Workhoppers as a solution for independent professionals. MORE
By Paul Whiffen , Hartfield KM Consulting. How to use knowledge management to future-proof your organisation. Knowledge Management MORE
The tipping point between effective leadership of change and the role of project managers This is a guest post by John Roberts, director of project and change management consultancy myProteus. MORE
Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie, who both work with the consultancy McKinsey, have released a book called Centered Leadership: Leading with […]. There are some foolproof tips for people who want to become good leaders (and since you’re reading this…), but others aren’t quite so clear. It’s the case with decision-making: which path should you follow? MORE
To sum up the multitude of different activities that this project practitioner had done, they chose to call themselves, “Business Change Consultant” Now that throws up a load of different interpretations depending on who you’re talking to. MORE
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! It's been a whole generation? Read my contribution to the Flashblog Project Management MORE
Something like “Project Manager – Business Transformation | IT & Consultancy Services”. If you’ve been working for an organisation for a while and you’re not using Linkedin to find work, something like “Project Manager at ABC Consulting” is just fine. MORE
Let’s talk about Project Portfolio Management In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Michael Hannan, the founder and principal consultant at Fortezza Consulting, about Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Michael is a board member of the PMI Washington DC chapter. He started in PPM at NASA in the 1990s working on the International Space Station and […]. The post Podcast 99 – Project Portfolio Management appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos. Podcasts MORE
Tanya is the owner and Principal Consultant of LaBuick & Co, a consulting firm based in Canada that operates as a consortium of qualified contractors and companies […]. Let’s talk about empowering your project teams In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Tanya LaBuick about getting the most out of your projects by empowering project teams. MORE
Experts Jason Morio, director of product management, Planview – PPM Pro and Projectplace and AJ Shavell, solutions consultant, have banded together to discuss the symptoms of a zombie PMO and present several cures. Warning: The following is an emergency alert. MORE
As a consultant, I am comfortable there will never be an organization at scale which can avoid coordination and planning. Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. MORE
Creative Consultancy Saves 24+ Hours Per Person Each Month with Scoro. HAVE YOU ever considered how many of your work hours are wasted on multitasking and refocusing your attention after every email and small task? It takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to refocus on a task. MORE
To help companies and their leaders understand these changes, large consulting […]. Global trends in talent management are reshaping the workplace, the workforce, and work itself. After years of struggling to drive the engagement and retention of high-level professionals, improve leadership and build a meaningful culture, corporations have perceived the need to redesign their organizational models. MORE
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! Need to tell a story? Proposal Message ESL audience Then this Khan Academy series on visual language is a place to start. There's power in framing, stretching, shaping. not to mention color, contrast, shading. Read my contribution to the Flashblog Project Management MORE
Consulted: These people would like to know about the task and we would seek their opinions before a decision or action. Now add the Consulted, Informed and Supportive (if using). A larger group is consulted and provides input. Have as few people as possible Consulted or Informed. MORE
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! You know, I wrote a book on quantitative methods in project management. But somehow I missed covering these equations! Read my contribution to the Flashblog Project Management MORE
I had a pleasure of talking with Stefan Engeseth, an author, consultant, speaker and Guest Professor. Stay On Top of Work With Stefan Engeseth! We’re back with another episode of our podcast on how to stay on top of your work! MORE
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! A simple but profound observation: When change is easy, the need for it cannot be foreseen; when the need for change is apparent, change has become expensive, difficult and time consuming. David Collingridge "The Control of Technology". Read my contribution to the. change Quotations MORE
From an online search and consulting with a group of Italian Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential holders (>400), the research team built a list of around 90 emerging project management and collaborative tools. Digitalization and Collaboration. MORE
Leigh: You work for a company that provides software development and consulting services. Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy owns PMBasics101.com where he writes about Project Management. Gallatin, TN is the nicest place in America! Who knew? MORE
Let’s talk about Project Portfolio Management In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Michael Hannan, the founder and principal consultant at Fortezza Consulting, about Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Michael is a board member of the PMI Washington DC chapter. He started in PPM at NASA in the 1990s working on the International Space Station and […]. The post Podcast 99 – Project Portfolio Management appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos. Podcasts MORE
When you need to hire a project management consulting firm, knowing in advance exactly what services you are getting and how much they will cost you gives control and peace of mind. MORE
New York Times bestselling author and renowned leadership consultant Chester Elton shares insights from his book “The Orange Revolution” on how to build high-performance teams. MORE
Tanya is the owner and Principal Consultant of LaBuick & Co, a consulting firm based in Canada that operates as a consortium of qualified contractors and companies […]. Let’s talk about empowering your project teams In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Tanya LaBuick about getting the most out of your projects by empowering project teams. MORE
"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem" Richard Feynman, Theoretical physicist Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! MORE
What is an online consulting? Online consulting is a veeeery vast term. Honestly, everyone with a decent knowledge on a particular topic can become a consultant on it. The Oxford Dictionary provides a definition of a consultant: “A person […]. Productivity Project Management Real Cases business consultant consultant online freelancer freelancingIt covers a considerable amount of jobs. Jobs that usually appear due to the market demand. MORE
Consulting. As a consultant, you’ll need to do marketing and customer acquisition to find your next clients, since you won’t be relying on a steady paycheck, but your income isn’t constrained to a set salary determined by a boss, and you’d have more flexibility in which projects you take on. MORE
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! Happy New Year! Read my contribution to the Flashblog Quotations MORE
What is a project management consultant? “ 65% of project management consultants do in fact carry out two things – they advise and they do, i.e., they also deliver the project or ‘solution’ too. These people are the modern-day project management consultants. MORE
Mark Phillips runs a consultancy focused on high performing projects. Soma Bhattacharya is the blogger behind Stepping into PM , and an Agile consultant. Brett Harned is a digital project management consultant and project manager, author and conference convenor. MORE
He is a reformed management consultant. He is a reformed management consultant. In this episode, Cesar and Traci interview Christopher Avery, PhD. After a decade helping corporations help smart, ambitious professionals find ways to cope with lives they don’t want and think they can’t change, he realized coping skills are overrated. A better skill is knowing how to apply your innate […] In this episode, Cesar and Traci interview Christopher Avery, PhD. MORE
Consulting Related Topics Arras People
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
What is a project management consultant? “ 65% of project management consultants do in fact carry out two things – they advise and they do, i.e., they also deliver the project or ‘solution’ too. These people are the modern-day project management consultants.
Arras People
JUNE 7, 2016
What is the different between a project management consultant and a freelance/contract project manager? Typically, a consultant, in any business field, has been traditionally focused on advising organizations what to do in certain business areas that need initiating, changing or developing.
Arras People
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
It’s #pmchat on Twitter tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm UK time and this week’s topic is being hosted by me on the subject of Project Management Consultants Vs Freelancers Vs Full Time permanent staff. Reading this after the event? Check out the Storify from the Twitter chat.
Arras People
MAY 4, 2016
You can consider contracting or consulting. This tends to be based on your recent experiences and could be managing similar projects, setting up things like PMOs or if you’re thinking about consulting in project management, what business challenges you can solve.
TimeCamp
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
We were browsing the internet, searching for online consultants experienced mostly in technical and marketing outsourcing. Project Management consultants IT list outsourcing outsourcing consultant project management
Wrike
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
After many years as a project manager I was pleased to come across a project management methodology called “Delivering the 8” developed by a local consulting company called FGT. She worked for many years as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. Vera then decided to make a significant change in her career in order to juggle between work and family and after becoming an independent consultant, she envisioned Workhoppers as a solution for independent professionals.
Hydra
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
By Paul Whiffen, Hartfield KM Consulting Ltd. Why should you integrate Knowledge Management (KM) into your Business Processes? Knowledge Management
Hydra
DECEMBER 14, 2017
By Paul Whiffen , Hartfield KM Consulting. How to use knowledge management to future-proof your organisation. Knowledge Management
Redbooth
APRIL 9, 2018
They accept assignments, work on them independently and collaboratively, consult each other and the Scrum Master when they have questions, and have to ward off distractions for the duration of the sprint.
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 9, 2018
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! It's been a whole generation? Read my contribution to the Flashblog Project Management
Green Project Management
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
This approach to new hires was the practice at Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) when I […].
Fix my Project Chaos
APRIL 2, 2017
Tanya is the owner and Principal Consultant of LaBuick & Co, a consulting firm based in Canada that operates as a consortium of qualified contractors and companies […]. Let’s talk about empowering your project teams In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Tanya LaBuick about getting the most out of your projects by empowering project teams.
Arras People
MARCH 13, 2018
Something like “Project Manager – Business Transformation | IT & Consultancy Services”. If you’ve been working for an organisation for a while and you’re not using Linkedin to find work, something like “Project Manager at ABC Consulting” is just fine.
Fix my Project Chaos
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Let’s talk about Project Portfolio Management In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Michael Hannan, the founder and principal consultant at Fortezza Consulting, about Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Michael is a board member of the PMI Washington DC chapter. He started in PPM at NASA in the 1990s working on the International Space Station and […]. The post Podcast 99 – Project Portfolio Management appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos. Podcasts
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 1, 2018
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! Happy New Year! Read my contribution to the Flashblog Quotations
PM for the Masses
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
He is a reformed management consultant. He is a reformed management consultant. In this episode, Cesar and Traci interview Christopher Avery, PhD. After a decade helping corporations help smart, ambitious professionals find ways to cope with lives they don’t want and think they can’t change, he realized coping skills are overrated. A better skill is knowing how to apply your innate […] In this episode, Cesar and Traci interview Christopher Avery, PhD.
Girl's Guide to PM
JANUARY 3, 2018
Mark Phillips runs a consultancy focused on high performing projects. Soma Bhattacharya is the blogger behind Stepping into PM , and an Agile consultant. Brett Harned is a digital project management consultant and project manager, author and conference convenor.
Fix my Project Chaos
APRIL 2, 2017
Tanya is the owner and Principal Consultant of LaBuick & Co, a consulting firm based in Canada that operates as a consortium of qualified contractors and companies […]. Let’s talk about empowering your project teams In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Tanya LaBuick about getting the most out of your projects by empowering project teams.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 4, 2018
"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem" Richard Feynman, Theoretical physicist Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer!
Girl's Guide to PM
OCTOBER 5, 2016
The tipping point between effective leadership of change and the role of project managers This is a guest post by John Roberts, director of project and change management consultancy myProteus.
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! A simple but profound observation: When change is easy, the need for it cannot be foreseen; when the need for change is apparent, change has become expensive, difficult and time consuming. David Collingridge "The Control of Technology". Read my contribution to the. change Quotations
Runrun.it
DECEMBER 14, 2017
To help companies and their leaders understand these changes, large consulting […]. Global trends in talent management are reshaping the workplace, the workforce, and work itself. After years of struggling to drive the engagement and retention of high-level professionals, improve leadership and build a meaningful culture, corporations have perceived the need to redesign their organizational models.
Girl's Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
From an online search and consulting with a group of Italian Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential holders (>400), the research team built a list of around 90 emerging project management and collaborative tools. Digitalization and Collaboration.
Runrun.it
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie, who both work with the consultancy McKinsey, have released a book called Centered Leadership: Leading with […]. There are some foolproof tips for people who want to become good leaders (and since you’re reading this…), but others aren’t quite so clear. It’s the case with decision-making: which path should you follow?
Planview
APRIL 27, 2018
Experts Jason Morio, director of product management, Planview – PPM Pro and Projectplace and AJ Shavell, solutions consultant, have banded together to discuss the symptoms of a zombie PMO and present several cures. Warning: The following is an emergency alert.
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 23, 2017
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! You know, I wrote a book on quantitative methods in project management. But somehow I missed covering these equations! Read my contribution to the Flashblog Project Management
Fix my Project Chaos
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Let’s talk about Project Portfolio Management In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Michael Hannan, the founder and principal consultant at Fortezza Consulting, about Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Michael is a board member of the PMI Washington DC chapter. He started in PPM at NASA in the 1990s working on the International Space Station and […]. The post Podcast 99 – Project Portfolio Management appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos. Podcasts
Arras People
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
To sum up the multitude of different activities that this project practitioner had done, they chose to call themselves, “Business Change Consultant” Now that throws up a load of different interpretations depending on who you’re talking to.
Brad Egeland
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
The right template, sugggestion, best practice or how to article can get you noticed too by hiring organizations, recruiters or companiesnin need of an expert consultant. Do you have something to say in a PM related or business strategy article but don't know how or where?
Fix my Project Chaos
APRIL 17, 2016
Trusted partners in business – Your PMO In this podcast, Elise speaks with Emma Arnaz-Pemberton from ERAP Consulting (PMO and P3O consultancy) to discuss PMO’s and how they can become trusted partners in business. Emma is a project, programme and portfolio specialist with extensive experience in the change management industry with a particular focus on […].
Tyner Blain
MAY 24, 2017
As a consultant, I am comfortable there will never be an organization at scale which can avoid coordination and planning. Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating.
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Consulting. As a consultant, you’ll need to do marketing and customer acquisition to find your next clients, since you won’t be relying on a steady paycheck, but your income isn’t constrained to a set salary determined by a boss, and you’d have more flexibility in which projects you take on.
Zen Project Management
DECEMBER 5, 2017
The discussion may include a history of the proposed change, others that have been consulted, and options. I am speaking this week at the Projects to the Point (P2P) conference in Cairo, Egypt. The focus of the conference is the book "How Successful Organizations Implement Change" and the speakers (myself included) each wrote one of the chapters of the book by the same title. We have an interesting approach for implementing change where I'm working, a technique call Nemawashi.
TimeCamp
JANUARY 11, 2018
I had a pleasure of talking with Stefan Engeseth, an author, consultant, speaker and Guest Professor. Stay On Top of Work With Stefan Engeseth! We’re back with another episode of our podcast on how to stay on top of your work!
Project Bliss
MAY 22, 2018
Leigh: You work for a company that provides software development and consulting services. Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy owns PMBasics101.com where he writes about Project Management. Gallatin, TN is the nicest place in America! Who knew?
Scoro
MAY 6, 2018
Creative Consultancy Saves 24+ Hours Per Person Each Month with Scoro. HAVE YOU ever considered how many of your work hours are wasted on multitasking and refocusing your attention after every email and small task? It takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to refocus on a task.
Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 31, 2017
Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! Need to tell a story? Proposal Message ESL audience Then this Khan Academy series on visual language is a place to start. There's power in framing, stretching, shaping. not to mention color, contrast, shading. Read my contribution to the Flashblog Project Management
Arras People
JUNE 13, 2016
This initiative, known as the “ Off-payroll working in the public sector: reform of the intermediaries legislation ” which is currently open for consultation; is looking to change the status of workers who use a Personal Services Company (PSC) into some kind of pseudo employee.
Girl's Guide to PM
MAY 23, 2016
Consulted: These people would like to know about the task and we would seek their opinions before a decision or action. Now add the Consulted, Informed and Supportive (if using). A larger group is consulted and provides input. Have as few people as possible Consulted or Informed.
Guerrilla Project Management
JANUARY 8, 2013
New York Times bestselling author and renowned leadership consultant Chester Elton shares insights from his book “The Orange Revolution” on how to build high-performance teams.
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