Brilliant Project Management

	‘A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours are wasted.’
Anon

Introduction

There’s a prevailing image of the project manager as someone who calls endless, pointless meetings. To many, it appears as though project managers spend much of their time locking up their key personnel and taking everyone away from doing real work.

However, few people doubt the importance of the free flow of information in an organisation. Whenever we’ve conducted staff surveys, ‘communication problems’ are regularly at the top of the gripe list in some ...