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How to fail well...

Failure Is the new success. Here are five ways that you can embrace...

5 Skills Needed To...

Why do projects fail? It's a question that invites a lot of interest and...

Embrace the change: Getting...

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Lynda Bourne

Lynda is Director of Training with Mosaic Project Services focusing on the delivery of CAPM, PMP, Stakeholder Circle® and other project related workshops, training and mentoring services. She is also the CEO of Stakeholder Management Pty Ltd. She was the first student to gain a Doctorate in Project Management from the RMIT University and has extensive experience as a Senior Project Manager and Project Director specialising in delivery of IT and other business-related projects within the telecomms sector.

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Leadership

Managing Stakeholder Attitudes

This post will look at the various dimensions of a stakeholders ‘attitude’ towards you and your project and how these will influence the project’s...
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Leadership

Using Project Controls for Effect

Describing scheduling, Earned Value and financial management as ‘project controls’ is, I would suggest dangerous!  The steering mechanism on a car is a control...
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Programme Management

How to Suffer Successfully

How to Suffer Successfully, is the title of chapter four in Alain de Botton’s first book of philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life....
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Valuing Project Procedures

I am frequently asked to quantify the value of improving an organisation’s stakeholder management capabilities or how to establish the ROI for a new...
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General

Managing your Sponsor to Create Value – The Benefits of Advising Upwards

The only purpose of undertaking a project or program is to have the deliverables it creates used by the organisation (or customer) to create...
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Leadership

Stakeholder Management or Customer Service?

Customer service is part of stakeholder management that is frequently overlooked.  Most projects develop a list of stakeholder as part of their communication planning...
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Programme Management

Stakeholder Management Maturity

Ethical management and corporate governance are about balancing the competing needs of all of the organisations stakeholders, balancing long and short term goals and...
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General

The costs of quality in communication

Quality was defined by Juran as fit for purpose, this elegant definition applies equally to the quality of your management processes and information as...
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Leadership

Controlling or Influencing? The real use of project controls

Describing scheduling, Earned Value and financial management as ‘project controls’ is dangerous! The steering mechanism on a car is a control system, you move...
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Leadership

Change is hard!

The purpose of undertaking a business change activity is to have the new processes used so as to create value! Value can be measured...
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