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What counts as ethics and ethical behaviours when researching?
Research is always conducted with other people and through research findings we influence their thinking and actions. Everything we do or...

Agnes Sopel
May 29, 20227 min read
 
 
 


What can we learn from professional action research? Quality managers as researches.
Action research is about evaluating whether your practice is as good as you would like it to be.  Through action research we improve our...

Agnes Sopel
May 29, 20228 min read
 
 
 


Leading successful project teams
A very small percentage of project managers are "born leaders". The rest of us work to develop such talent. There are also different...

Agnes Sopel
May 2, 20226 min read
 
 
 


The process of change management
"And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its...

Agnes Sopel
May 2, 20225 min read
 
 
 


Project Stakeholders
“There are two ways to go through life. The easy way and the hard way. The hard way is to learn from your own mistakes. The easy way is...

Agnes Sopel
May 1, 20224 min read
 
 
 


Project risk management
Over the past decades the concept of risk management receives a high volume of recognition. All managers should tackling their risks...

Agnes Sopel
May 1, 20229 min read
 
 
 


The responses to change and project management
One of the biggest challenges of change projects is people accepting the change. Change might impact their work greatly, from new...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 30, 20225 min read
 
 
 


Multiple Projects, Programs and Portfolios
I my previous blogs I have been focusing purely on the planning, control and closure of single project management. Let's take a step from...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 30, 20227 min read
 
 
 


Project Tracking and Closure
Devising an effective system to tracking progress of a project right to the closing is one of the biggest challenges of the project...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 24, 20226 min read
 
 
 


Earned Value Analysis
So, we have budgeted costs of a project and established methods to collect data. Now, it is time for finding ways of cost reporting....

Agnes Sopel
Apr 24, 202211 min read
 
 
 


Project costs - types, boundaries, checklists, collections, approvals
Changes in projects often affect the costs and expenditure. Some of the changes might be unforeseen, but generally the responsibility lie...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 18, 20228 min read
 
 
 


Projects - cost and types of change, approval, administration, design errors and version control
No significant long-term project can run without at least one significant change. A change would be defined as a departure from the...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 18, 20227 min read
 
 
 


Project progress (CLC, Work-To-Do lists, Data checks, Agency, Urgent orders, Corrections, Meetings)
Managing deadlines of large projects generally pose many difficulties and with far greater complexity to organisations. But, how do we...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 17, 202212 min read
 
 
 


Project management maturity - are we there yet?
The business ability to meet their objectives on time, budget and quality can bring many benefits and competitive advantage. But some......

Agnes Sopel
Apr 17, 20224 min read
 
 
 


Project Control, Change and Earned Value Analysis
Project managers might have a lot of responsibility, but little authority to get the job done. They require relevant skills do make...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 15, 20227 min read
 
 
 


Project Plans optimisation
Almost everyone can develop a basic project plan. However, only skilled project managers can find optimal solutions for projects. This...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 15, 20223 min read
 
 
 


Managing project risks
Projects attract many risks. Project risk management is concerned with attempting to identify all the foreseeable risks, assessing their...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 12, 20225 min read
 
 
 


Scheduling parts and purchasing for manufacturing projects
Manufactured and purchased parts for manufacturing projects lead to different problems. These are often associated with purchasing bulk...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 10, 20227 min read
 
 
 


Project cost estimating
The most obvious reason for producing cost estimates is to assist in pricing decisions. We always need to be clear what costs we are...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 10, 20229 min read
 
 
 


Project management - resources
Once a reasonable project plan is in place we should swiftly focus on the resources. Simply, resource is something that is required for...

Agnes Sopel
Apr 8, 20225 min read
 
 
 
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