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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.

What I want to discuss here are various forms of documentation, communication and planning that are required or suggested for projects. Obviously, how much of this planning, formalization and documentation work your team does is somewhat dependent on five things...

I'd like to look at how we do or should or could react to the feedback we get on the projects we manage. Sometimes we only get the negative feedback and that can be even more frustrating...but helpful.Receiving and reacting to positive feedback on our projects and performance. can be really satisfying.

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.

Project managers manage projects for a living. Even if you only manage the odd project here and there as part of your day job, the chances are that you have more experience doing that than your sponsor does in sponsoring projects.

There are three simple reasons for that.

A mind map is an excellent place to start a project. It helps you collate all the ideas and potential tasks for your project, but you might not realise you can easily use the same data to build your project plan. Here’s how to take the unstructured data of your mind map and transform it into a Gantt chart. 

Whether you are experienced at mind mapping or just starting out; whether you use them occasionally for project meetings or for a range of diagramming needs, you can personalize your mind maps to get them looking just right. Here are some of the features you can use to make your mind maps really stand out.

Recreating the wheel is time-consuming, frustrating and costly. And yet, many organizations still rebuild every requirement from scratch when starting a new product. Our hypothesis was that requirements reuse is both underused and desirable. To quantify its value, we surveyed 389 product development professionals in October 2012.The results were revealing – unnecessary reuse is rampant...

When leading a project, the project manager and team usually want to get as much accurate input into the current business processes and what they need to be when the solution is implemented. The project sponsor can envision, champion, and hopefully fund the project, but as far as giving the project manager and team a real world technical expertise...