Your way into the Project Management World

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Because, let’s face it: managing projects is all about managing people, and managing content is about managing people with insane amounts of talent, that often comes with a fair share of insecurity and easily bruised egos. Here are the five things I feel you as a project manager can learn from us content managers.

Whether it’s workplace challenges getting you down or something going on at home, stress can prevent you from being your best self at the office. As a team leader on a project, you might spot behaviour that is out of character from someone one your team.

You've probably heard of projects in your business, or elsewhere, being managed with very little in the way of formal requirements. In my experience, the risk of not having formal project requirements is that you don't know what your stakeholders are expecting. You've been asked to ...

Job description of project manager is to define which roles and duties are best suited for a particular job. In this article are the main responsibilites you should expect to see in a standard project management job description.

Part of your role as a project manager is to resolve conflicts on the team, or at least help people find a way through them. I’m going to cover three practical ways that you can tackle conflict in your team: diffuse, agree and apologize.

Often, project managers don’t add resources to their project schedules. If you don’t do a lot of resource reporting from your scheduling tool, it can seem like overkill to add people’s names to the tasks. It’s another step to do and you’re already busy enough.

Your issue log is where you record the problems that have happened on the project. Your issue log can be a simple spreadsheet or built in to your project management software. You may have a template from a previous project or your PMO. It really doesn’t matter how you record the issues in the log, as long as you have a log.

If you determine that you will not be able to meet the promises you made in the project plan or if a key stakeholder wants you to change the plan - that is, add features or functions to the final deliverable ...