In today’s interconnected world, collaboration among partners in a project is essential for success. To facilitate efficient and seamless collaboration, it is crucial to plan and establish a joint workspace. One common approach is to create a web-based workspace that serves as a centralized hub for all project members. This… Read More »Joint workspace
From my point of view, the Kick-off meeting is one of the crucial meetings in a project. It represents the first physical meeting of the project partners, enables them to get to know each other for the first time, and forms the basis on which further project work is built.… Read More »Kick-off meeting – failed
This is a brief presentation of typical Project Management Tasks that are standard in European (ERASMUS+) projects. A project manager, assisted by the team, is charged with multiple responsibilities that span the five classic project phases of a project life cycle (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing). Typical activities of… Read More »Project Management Tasks
Actually, leadership simply means management. But that is no longer what the term means today. It is about true leadership and not about managing. Management vs Leadership Management means keeping an organization running; leadership, on the other hand, means changing it and involving others in the process. Here it is… Read More »Management Leadership
Lessons learned is a term that refers to the process of capturing, analyzing, and applying knowledge gained from experiences to improve future performance. It involves identifying valuable insights, best practices, and areas for improvement, and leveraging this knowledge to enhance decision-making and prevent the repetition of mistakes. In this essay,… Read More »Lessons learned: General Issues
Lessons learned focus on the feedback of a project team with the intention to improve it in the future. In typical Erasmus+ projects, the project team creates content named “Intellectual Outputs”. Starting with 2021, this changed to content created in Work Packages. Nevertheless, there is a creative process with some… Read More »Lessons Learned: Content Creation
In many projects, the satisfaction of a positive project conclusion is so great that many partners forget about a “Lessons Learned” discussion. This is bad because the project partners miss the opportunity to improve and strengthen – mainly in project management. This analysis of the performance in the project, identifying… Read More »Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned (LL) are experiences distilled from past activities that should be actively taken into account in future actions and behaviors. In our environment of projects, lessons learned are the knowledge gained from the process of conducting a project. This includes the positives and negatives. The idea is to repeat… Read More »Lessons Learned
Communication in project management involves the exchange of information between all project participants. Communication is a key function in project work. Effective and goal-oriented communication are the basic requirements for the successful completion of a project. Communication as a cornerstone in successful projects. In project management, three main areas of… Read More »Communication in Projects
Meetings are tools to discuss open issues, make decisions, get a status report, or to implement other important issues with the team in the project. Watch this presentation and answer the self-assessment questions at the end. Transcript of the videos Further reading Project meetings (Planview) Well-done compilation with a comprehensive… Read More »About Meetings