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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...

Contrary to common practise , project recovery is not about stopping everything to undertake a review and restructure, rather, it requires the right blend of corrective-action and current focus to maintain momentum, but can only be initiated once...

You know the scenario.  You sign up a client, have some initial discussions and are handed some high-level requirements for what it is the client wants you to lead or implement for them.  Now it’s time to meet with the end users...

No one seeks out to be part of a failing project.  No project manager in their right mind says, “I hope this project tanks.”  It’s just not part of our human nature. 

The Guide to the PMBOK classifies the processes that make up each project management process group into nine Project Management Knowledge Areas. These groupings, or knowledge areas, bring together processes that have things in common.

Let's look at the process to explore customer opinion on the project results and how your team performed. Remember, don't be too defensive ... go into it as positively as possible. Here are 12 statements you could include on the...

Ernest Baker, PMP, gave a presentation at the recent PMI Global Congress North America called ‘Ten troublesome project management ideas and how to combat them!’ I thought the content was worth sharing, as he had some good, practical...

Even when you organize and lead your projects well, there are still some common problems in the project management world that you may continue to run into on your engagements. Read the article to find out how to overcome 10 project management...