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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.

To facilitate agility, early and often feedback is vital. In this article you will learn how manage early client feedback and save valuable time and money.

A project charter is a document that is created at the beginning of the project that sets what the project is about. 

In this article, we look at 5 essential things to include in the charter.

These days, project teams have to deal with emerging requirements on projects because our world simply doesn’t stand still. With that in mind, you might think it is a bit old fashioned to be baselining your project schedule, but this article will show you otherwise.

Leadership in project management is a hot topic right now and everyone seems to be talking about it. But what does it mean to be a leader?

Effective leadership is important for projects – no one disputes that and a quick online search will throw up plenty of survey results that position leadership as one of the key factors for project success.

However, leadership is hard work. It’s also very stressful. I hear a lot about ‘being a leader’ but I don’t think the discussion is wide enough. We also need to talk about how to cope with being a project leader because it’s difficult, especially if you don’t have a lot of experience at the top.

I wish project teams worked well together from Day 1 but experience shows this isn’t the case. At all, some of the time. Here are 6 behaviours to watch out for in your project team and some things that you can  do to manage these behaviours and attitudes before they start to cause problems on your team. 

A common problem on projects is that you and the team get so used to working on the project, deep in the detail, that you can’t see the big picture. The issue with this is that you really do need to be able to take a big picture view sometimes as it helps you see how the project fits into the organisation and how what you are doing adds value. Knowing that context will in turn help you keep the fo ...

Project managers are at the forefront of project success. They are responsible for defining, organizing, and keeping projects moving toward completion, thus if the project is a success, the bulk of the credit goes to the manager.