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What makes a Project Manager a good Project Manager?  Employers struggle with this question a lot, I’m sure.  They struggle with it when they’re creating a Project Management Office (PMO) and the accompanying policies, procedures and processes.  They struggle with it when their Human Resources department is putting together job postings.  They struggle with it when they’re interviewing candidates and I’m sure they struggle with it the most when they weigh the candidates and try to come up with the one that they decide should become part of their organization.  

If you want to become certified project manager and get your own certification for project management professional, you may want to check out these 5 best project management certification programs that are worth for evaluation.

Use these 7 tips to create a brainstorming session that helps your team come up with a truly creative solution to your problem and take your business operations to the next level.

Here are 8 elements all great Gantt charts have in common. Get these right, and you’ll be well on the way to communicating project status easily with your stakeholders and team. What kind of elements do every great Gantt charts have?

A fundamental mechanism for passing on human wisdom since early civilization, has been story-telling. That is how the idea was born to use story-telling techniques to capture the experience of high-performing Project Managers.

Whether you’re employed right now, independently consulting, or unemployed, we’re all really looking for a job, right? Are you finding that it is helping your job hunt?

Ah, the annual buzz of New Year’s resolutions. Every year I talk to project managers around this time and at least half of them tell me that they are going to get a new job. Or at least look for one. Even my own team tell me that they want to expand their horizons and try new things, take on new projects and build their skills. This really is the time of year for reflection and creating new career ...

What do you really need to know in order to be a great project manager? A paper in the Project Management Journal* has gone into this in a lot of detail, and analysed the Project Management Competency Development (PMCD) framework with the aim of identifying whether project managers ...

There are two main criteria for determining whether you shouldn’t work on a project at all: it’s difficult to do and it would give you a low return on that investment.