Elizabeth Harrin

Project communications are hard. There are multiple stakeholders, different views on how things should be done, different channels to use, and no one has the time to do anything any longer. I believe that project managers have had to move into the space t... See more

You sent the email. You explained the requirement. Everyone nodded in the meeting. And yet, two weeks later, people have interpreted the message differently. Communication models aren’t just academic diagrams: they give project managers different lenses f... See more

What is a ROM estimate? A rough order of magnitude estimate is used to give you a very high level view of potential project costs. Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts a... See more

Once upon a time I used to try to plan my projects around dates when I knew I was going to be in the office. My colleagues joked that I planned the birth date of my first child around a major transformation project go live date (I didn’t). It turned out t... See more

When I’m getting ready to leave a job, whether that’s for a holiday or for good, I’ll make sure to do a handover to my boss. That might be as simple as a quick email or a conversation in our last 1:1, but sometimes it’s important to do a bit more than tha... See more