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Here is a list of articles covering the subject of project management and providing so tips and guidelines to follow (organised alphabetically according to author) with excerpts from each article.

Business Balls, Leadership Development Tips
While leadership is easy to explain, leadership is not so easy to practise. Leadership is about behaviour first, skills second. Good leaders are followed chiefly because people trust and respect them, rather than the skills they possess. Leadership is different to management. Management relies more on planning, organisational and communications skills. Leadership relies on management skills too, but more so on qualities such as…

Babauta Leo, (2007), A Guide to Simple Project Management, on Freelance Switch
Freelancers are excellent at producing great work if an assignment takes less than a day to complete. But many freelancers (not all) are also notoriously bad at completing projects that take several days or more to complete.
We’re not always great at project management—and part of the problem might be that we don’t have a boss breathing down our necks, pressuring us at every turn and holding us accountable…

Design Principles, (2006), Project Management Made Easy
I’m competent at project management, but it frustrates me to no end. The organization and customer deadlines are easy enough to deal with. Often though, I find myself frustrated with my own process of managing projects. I’ve never really attempted to analyze what may be the source of my grief, but…

Follett Jonathan, (2008), The Rules of Digital Engagement, on A List Apart Magazine
For contract web workers, consultants, and freelancers who work with far-flung collaborators, multiple clients, and constantly shifting teams, the rules of digital engagement—the way we interact with each other and resolve conflict in virtual space—are constantly changing. As we adapt to new ways of collaborating, we must also learn how to communicate effectively, set expectations, and build team confidence in an evolving work environment…

Koch Peter-Paul, (2003), The Ideal Web Team (Part one), on Digital Web Magazine
Anyone can tell you that to create a good Web site you need a good Web team. Less people can tell you exactly how this team should go about creating the site. This two-part series presents one view of the ideal Web Team.
The ideal Web team consists of three sub-teams…

Polansky Adam, (2007), Faceted Feature Analysis, on Boxes and Arrows
Everyone has ideas. Many of those ideas are held passionately. Some are brilliant, some are unrealistic and some are down-right stupid.
How can you make sense of ideas from multiple sources–formal requirements, brainstorm sessions, contextual inquiry, and input from the boss’s wife?…

Project Management Source, (2006), Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your life
Project Management (and life) Wisdom straight from the mouths of the horses – oops, I mean project managers…

Robinson Keith D., (2006), Project Management Made Easy
Over the years I’ve learned to take what works and lose what doesn’t. This has left me with a surprisingly simple and easy to learn group of tricks, tips and methods related to project management that work better than anything…

Williams Meri, (2007), Effective Project Management for Web Geeks, on Site Point
Project Management” has always been a term more likely to elicit a groan than a smile. Nevertheless, the use of project management skills is often what distinguishes an easy, successful project from a painful and unsatisfactory one…

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