How to Be Awesome at Your Job

831: How to Manage Multiple Projects without the Overwhelm with Elizabeth Harrin

Jan 16, 2023

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Having a comprehensive view of your project portfolio helps prioritize tasks, delegate responsibilities, and streamline communication.

Setting realistic deadlines and involving team members in the planning process ensures engagement, realistic expectations, and optimized resource allocation.

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Managing Multiple Projects Made Easy

Managing multiple projects can be overwhelming, but Elizabeth Herron, a project management expert, shares some valuable insights on how to make it more manageable. One key tip is to have a clear understanding of your project portfolio, including the workload and time commitments for each project. By grouping projects into different buckets, it becomes easier to prioritize and streamline communication. Another crucial aspect is setting realistic deadlines and involving team members in the planning process. Elizabeth also emphasizes the importance of balancing the triple constraint of time, cost, and quality when managing multiple projects. Lastly, she highlights the significance of personal boundaries, effective task management, and open communication to avoid burnout and deliver quality results.

The Top Dos and Don'ts Within Each of the Five Concepts

04:59

The Dependency Matrix

02:02

The Project Management Triangle

02:58

Introduction

2min

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

2min

Is There a Difference Between Speed and Excellence in a Project Management Environment?

3min

Managing Multiple Projects - The Key Thing That Made the Most Impact

3min

The Dependency Matrix

2min

How Do You Manage Multiple Projects?

2min

Having Mental Boundaries Is the Most Important Thing

3min

The Top Dos and Don'ts Within Each of the Five Concepts

5min

Having a Checklist in Place Is a Great Way to Free Up Stress

2min

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Are You Having a Hard Time Estimating?

3min

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Is There Anything You Can Do About It?

3min

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The Project Management Triangle

3min

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Is Quality the Key to Quality?

2min

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Can You Group Your Multiple Projects?

2min

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What's Your Favorite Quote?

2min

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How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast Episode 831

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Elizabeth Harrin lays out the five critical steps to making the management of multiple projects more manageable.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The easiest way to make managing multiple projects manageable

2) How to ensure follow through when you’re not the manager

3)How to strike the right balance between time, cost, and quality

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— ABOUT ELIZABETH —

Elizabeth Harrin teaches people how to juggle multiple projects so they can meet stakeholders’ expectations without working extra hours. She is a project management practitioner, trainer, mentor and founder of RebelsGuideToPM.com.

An author of seven project management books, Elizabeth prides herself on her straight-talking, real-world advice for project managers. She uses her twenty years’ experience doing the job to help people deliver better quality results whilst ditching the burnout through her community membership programme, Project Management Rebels.

• Book: Managing Multiple Projects: How Project Managers Can Balance Priorities, Manage Expectations and Increase Productivity

• LinkedIn: Elizabeth Harrin

• Website: RebelsGuidetoPM.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Infinity

• Tool: Maltron keyboard

• Study: “The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action: The Role of ‘Placebic’ Information in Interpersonal Interaction“ by Ellen Langer, Arthur Blank, and Benzion Chanowitz

• Book: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

• Book: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results by Anthony Mersino

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