In case you’ve solely simply stumbled throughout this weblog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of running a blog about challenge administration. And we stored on going!
I believed it was time to look again and see what the stand-out articles have been over time. Listed here are the highest articles 12 months by 12 months. There are some widespread themes and ‘all time greats’ as you’ll see!
2024
How to write a handover email to your manager was my most-read article, adopted by 10 Simple Ways to Prepare a Handover at Work. It looks as if persons are nonetheless in search of methods to assist their colleagues after they transfer on!
They have been intently adopted by the favored Write a Terms of Reference which comes with a free template.
I additionally added articles final 12 months on KPIs for project management job roles as that’s one thing I get requested about lots, and tips for managing Red projects and getting again to Inexperienced.
2023
The How to Handover a Project article topped the listing of hottest reads of the 12 months once more this 12 months, intently adopted by How to Do Version Control.
I additionally added articles on how to write handover emails and how to handover a project on closure.
I feel running a blog has moved past ‘what are you doing proper now’ and private updates (now we have different social channels for these now) and extra into the ‘how do I?’ class of content material. I’d like to think about this weblog as someplace individuals go to get the solutions to their tough questions.
2022
The Handover a Venture article held it’s prime spot, adopted by Project Artifacts and How to Use Them.
I’m stunned at this one, however I feel individuals have been wanting up ‘artifact’ because it’s such an uncommon phrase that we don’t actually use in enterprise or challenge administration dialog, except you’re finding out for the
2021
Have been individuals handing over work to others greater than regular throughout 2021? Or maybe all of us took the chance to go away the workplace as quickly as we might when restrictions on motion have been briefly lifted occasionally?
Both approach, my information to how to handover a project before your holiday vacation was the most-read piece on the location that 12 months. It’s all about the way to go away the workplace with out worrying about wanting again, since you’ve executed a easy handover to a colleague who can act as a caretaker whilst you’re off.
2020
Everyone knows what occurred throughout 2020: when you weren’t working just about already, the pandemic just about enforced it for individuals with workplace jobs. Consequently, my information to how to run a virtual scavenger hunt to assist with
2019
This 12 months, challenge managers will need to have been involved about assembly minutes because the article that was learn probably the most was all about tips for writing better minutes.
2018
The important docs article topped the listing once more this 12 months, intently adopted by the useful resource library pages.
You don’t have entry to the resource library? It’s free. It’s a part of our buyer portal and it comprises templates and guides. What are you ready for?
2017
My abstract of the 9 project management documents each challenge wants got here out within the Spring of 2017 (if I keep in mind rightly) and quick grew to become the most well-liked article that 12 months.
I feel it helped that I included hyperlinks to templates so readers might get began actually shortly with creating the paperwork that have been going to have probably the most impression on their challenge’s success, with out having an enormous overhead of paperwork.
2016
The most well-liked article of this 12 months was my information to the project management conferences taking place.
I had no concept that this might be such an essential article for individuals, and it’s one thing I’ve stored updating 12 months on 12 months. I feel it’s good to summarize the most important and finest occasions that will help you make choices about what to spend your cash on. There’s a whole lot of alternative, and the listing essentially displays those I really feel I can finest discuss knowledgeably about (i.e. those I’ve been to and skilled the standard first-hand).
In the event you assume I’ve missed any, drop me a line and let me know what’s taking place close to you for subsequent 12 months’s model.
2015
This was the 12 months I wrote the definitive guide to project management success criteria. That is most likely the most-read article I’ve ever written, and I’ve tried to develop it during the last 12 months to make it much more helpful.
It was additionally certainly one of my first articles to incorporate a free factor. Proper now it’s bought a listing of done-for-you 20 pattern success standards so that you simply don’t need to assume them up your self.
2014
This piece on 10 Killer Interview Questions for Project Managers might be one of many all-time prime articles. It’s been reprinted elsewhere and nonetheless will get learn at present.
Again then I did have accountability for hiring (I don’t have a PM crew working for me at present) so I used to be talking from my very own experiences.
2013
Google Analytics tells me that 6 Things I Didn’t Know About Being a PM was the highest publish of 2013.
I hadn’t learn this one for some time (most likely since I first revealed it) and it was good to look again. I nonetheless imagine that every one that is true.
2012
I hadn’t realized it, however What Makes A Good Project Manager was really the highest publish of 2012. I re-ran the article only recently, which reveals I nonetheless price it as a great piece of writing too. (I didn’t write it, by the way in which.)
2011
One among this 12 months’s most-read articles was 5 Venture Administration Apps You’ve By no means Heard Of.
Checking in at present with the businesses talked about, three are nonetheless going, one appears prefer it has been taken over by Straightforward Tasks and the final one’s web site is now not working. For extra up-to-date software reviews, see my complete list here.
2010
My project alphabet was a preferred publish of 2010 and impressed Derek Huether to write down a book about zombie project management.
(Don’t know what that’s? Right here’s the news on zombie projects and how to kill them).
2009
I declared 2009 the 12 months of the Workplace Goddess and I wrote a sequence of posts about the way to excel at work.
This was certainly one of my favorites: about Pareto and the 80/20 rule and how some stuff just needs to get done.
That was again within the days earlier than I had model pointers for a way my weblog ought to look – we’ve up to date fairly a couple of issues since then!
2008
In 2008 I used to be residing and dealing in Paris, France, which concerned a number of workplace strikes. I wrote about what every project manager needs as her office survival kit – issues that travelled with me from workplace to workplace (and never work-related paperwork, both).
By the way in which, I discuss with La Défense as crummy on this article, however by the point I left I had come to understand the arch, the structure and the little cafés hidden between the workplaces. And likewise the huge procuring middle.
2007
In September 2007 I revealed a guide to why projects fail. It touched on the traditional causes for challenge failures – poor sponsorship and so forth – but in addition targeted on how we outline failure on initiatives.
It’s nonetheless one thing that I don’t assume we spend sufficient time doing. Key success standards, and, in distinction, what failure appears like, are nonetheless areas of initiatives the place miscommunication results in sad stakeholders, even when you ship what you stated you’d.
2006
I reported on the state of the Gypsy Moth IV project: the restoration of a historic yacht. On the time, the challenge was desperately in need of money.
Gipsy Moth IV did make her deliberate round-the-world journey and continues to operate today, taking teams on breath-taking sea journeys.
Right here’s to the subsequent 15 years!
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