Introduction to Project Management
This page provides an easy-to-understand guide on successful management of projects.
10.1 How to Improve Your Project Management Skills
Why years of experience do not automatically make you a better project manager, and the written prediction habit that fixes it — plus how to change one thing per project and make it stick.
8.1 Traits of Successful Projects: What They Share
The four cheapest practices that separate projects that work from ones that don't, what successful projects notably lack, and a two-hour week-one checklist.
8.0 Project Management Case Studies: Patterns
The five variables that separate projects that work from projects that fail, how case studies mislead through hindsight and survivorship bias, and how to read one usefully.
7.3 Knowledge Transfer: Making Lessons Survive
Where a project's knowledge really lives, which parts are worth moving before the team disperses, how to make them findable, and the habit that makes it all pay off.
7.2 Project Retrospectives That Change Things
How to run a project retrospective whose output is instructions rather than observations, why evaluation is a separate question, and what makes lessons survive.
7.0 Project Closure: Ending Projects Properly
Why the last two days of a project decide what the organisation keeps, the symptoms of thin closure months later, and how much closure a project of each size needs.
2.4 Project Closing: Handover, Sign-off, Lessons
Why the closing phase gets skipped, the five things it must produce, how to write a retrospective people actually read, and how to close a cancelled project.