EDITOR'S PICK Project Planning Use your PM Abilities to Create a Christmas Shopping List Like a Pro Whether you’re shopping for gifts for your team or you are planning a surprise Christmas party for the entire office, this sort of project requires a lot of planning and tough decision-making. Luckily, these are part of your project... By Erika Rykun 25 Nov 2019
Productivity 5 Ways to Smarten Up Your Task List A good task list is at the heart of staying organized on your project. Whether it’s a list of To Do actions for you personally at work, or a project task list, here are 5 ways to smarten up how you make and manage your list. By Elizabeth Harrin03 Jun 2019
Productivity 5 Benefits of Assigning Tasks on Your Schedule 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... By Elizabeth Harrin22 Mar 2019
Productivity 4 Ways to Utilize Your 'Free' Time Well When you’re independently consulting as a project manager or other type of project team resource, one of the most frightening terms is ‘downtime’. Or, equally bad…’non-billable hours’. In this economy,... By PMtips15 Mar 2019
Productivity 9 Things to Consider When Integrating New Solution Rolling out a new solution for a project client requires extreme planning, effort, and coordination throughout the engagement. No project manager or project team member would tell you anything different. By Anonym15 Mar 2019
Productivity 7 Points Concerning Project Deadlines Deadlines are part of every project. There will be easy deadlines, difficult deadlines, and probably even some ‘never-going-to-make-it’ deadlines on your projects imposed either by you, your customer, executive management, or... By Kristina Gjorgievska14 Mar 2019
Productivity Top 9 Essential Tools for Project Managers You can get everything from apps dedicated to task lists to collaboration tools, to tools that calculate project risk and model outcomes for you. By Anonym13 Mar 2019
Productivity 10 Characteristics of Successful Project Teams Have you ever been a member of a high-performing, smoothly running team? If you have been, it’s an experience that you are not likely to forget. On this type of team there is usually a strong trust bond, people work cooperatively... By PMTips28 Jan 2019
Productivity Twelve Characteristics of Ineffective Teams Teams featuring these twelve characteristics often have little hope of success, especially if the conditions persist for any length of time. The proactive project manager must recognize these conditions and take corrective action as quickly as... By PMTips23 Jan 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Innovation Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for Project Management Tools A list of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for project management software. By PMtips27 Nov 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management Project Manager and Scrum Master – is one of them now redundant? There is real confusion and/or mis-understanding, (and unnecessarily so), when it comes to “roles” within the change environment (I am referring to organizational change initiatives in the main – projects and programmes), as... By Antony della Porta13 Nov 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Leadership 3 Approaches for Managing Difficult People When you see difficult people, it’s generally because their behavior is difficult. You don’t like how they respond to you or their work. And that is something you can deal with. Here are three situations where a person may come... By Elizabeth Harrin14 Oct 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Career Advice 40 Job Interview Questions for Project Managers Whether you are preparing for an interview as a candidate or an interviewer, you’ll be thinking about questions. What are they going to ask me? What are the questions I should ask? Here are 40 job interview questions for project managers... By Elizabeth Harrin07 Oct 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Strategy Project success: what is it – and more importantly, WHEN is it? When is success measured? When? In fact, it could take months, years, and if you have a ‘sustainability hat’ on, it could take decades or centuries. We need to avoid having a “project management success”... By Rich Maltzman22 Jul 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management 11 Great Ways Project Management Can Help Your Growing Business The main advantage of having a successful project management team is that your business will ultimately be able to manage product quality quickly and fairly. But there are other important ways in which project management can help your business... By Becky Holton29 Nov 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management Project Manager and Scrum Master – is one of them now redundant? There is real confusion and/or mis-understanding, (and unnecessarily so), when it comes to “roles” within the change environment (I am referring to organizational change initiatives in the main – projects and programmes), as... By Antony della Porta13 Nov 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management 3 Reasons Why Projects Fail While we’d all love our projects to deliver something amazing, all the time, in reality, projects do fail. Even if you have delivered the work you said you would, on time, on budget and to the required scope, sometimes the end result is... By Elizabeth Harrin28 Oct 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management The Ultimate Guide to the Project Life Cycle To ensure the success of a project, it is important for both managers and executives to get familiar with the DOs and DON'Ts of a project life cycle. They need to understand the definition, phases, principles, benefits, and potential... By Vartika Kashyap16 Sep 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management Tips on How to Successfully Pass the PMP® Exam PMP® Certification is the gold standard and every project manager has always aspired to acquire it. It is a proven record that PMPs speak and understand the global language of project management. The benefits that you would find in a PMP®... By Jaime Alonso Candau29 Aug 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Planning Use your PM Abilities to Create a Christmas Shopping List Like a Pro Whether you’re shopping for gifts for your team or you are planning a surprise Christmas party for the entire office, this sort of project requires a lot of planning and tough decision-making. Luckily, these are part of your project... By Erika Rykun25 Nov 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Planning What is all this “fuss” around plans? Various quotes and phrase have been “aired” over the years about plans, usually quoting, or at least referring to, Dwight Eisenhower and not so well know one from Sir Winston Churchill, that go along the lines Plans are useless,... By Antony della Porta11 Nov 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Planning 5 Steps to a Data-driven Construction Project Are you a data-drive project manager? Moreover, are you work in construction? If so, you will like these 5 tips to a data-driven construction project. Read the article. By PMtips29 May 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Planning 5 Ways To Improve Project Testing Project magers usually struggle with project testing because usualy they don't allocate enough time on testing phase. This article reveal 5 useful tips for managing project testing. By PMTips28 May 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Planning Closing the Project Deal Do you really believe that to be the case? I probably did at some point, but that has definitely changed over the years. The key is to ask the right questions upfront that will help you gauge the level of solution knowledge your customer has when... By PMtips14 Mar 2019