Moving from developer to project manager: 4 lessons from Doctor Who

Sep 27, 2018 | HPE Insights

Considering a move from programming into team leadership? Let an expert in regeneration advise your career path. “Doctor Who” is a long-running BBC television show that tells the tale of a Time Lord, known as the Doctor, as he travels through time and...

All I Need to Know About Project Management I Learned from THE MARTIAN

Jun 9, 2016 | Certwise

Someone gave you a project to manage, but you don’t know where to start? No problem. You can get all the guidance you need from the movie, The Martian. Congratulations, it’s the first day of the rest of your career. (Gulp!) Now that you’re a project manager, you may...

What to Do When You Inherit a Project, as Illustrated by Mission: Impossible

Apr 26, 2016 | Certwise

Ethan Hunt has it easy in Mission: Impossible. He merely needs to stop bad guys in a series of explosively-implausible yet entertaining ways. You, on the other hand, have inherited a project. And the safety of the world – I mean, the project – is at stake. Your...

5 Signs That Your Team Member Wants a Promotion (as told by Star Trek)

Aug 21, 2013 | SmartBear

ShareAt one point in the classic Star Trek episode, “Mirror, Mirror,” Mirror Chekov waylays Captain Kirk. As he points his phaser at James T. Awesome, he says, “So you die, Captain, and we all move up in rank.” I’m not just telling you this...

6 Lessons “The Walking Dead” Can Teach You about Project Management

Jul 23, 2013 | The Fast Track

The Walking Dead is a television show based on a long-running comic book about the survivors of a zombie apocalypse. When our protagonists aren’t being killed by zombies (Dale, T-Dog), killed by humans (Andrea), dying of natural causes (Lori), losing limbs to zombies...