EDITOR'S PICK 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 Harrin 07 Oct 2019
Resource Management 7 Project Management Tips on How to Motivate your Team In order to get the critical work done, businesses need to rely on skilled project managers to stimulate the unmotivated and uncommitted team members out there. By Kristin Savage18 Nov 2019
Resource Management How to Handle Criticism from Employees During a... Criticism can take its toll on you as a project manager if not handled properly. The way you respond often sets a precedent on how others will behave. Championing a positive company culture during projects, and molding critics into constructive... By PMtips04 Nov 2019
Resource Management Biases in Project Management and How to Get Rid of Them Are you a biased project manager? Most people would say “No, definitely not!” – and it’s hopefully a given that you’re not in any way deliberately biased, favoring men over women, or being biased against members... By Erika Rykun30 Sep 2019
Resource Management Remote Team Engagement: What Every Project Manager... Keeping remote team members happy and engaged can be tricky. In the office, it’s usually clear who’s slacking off, facing burnout, or simply having a bad day. By Erika Rykun09 Sep 2019
Resource Management How to Embed Deep Work into Remote Team Management Remote work has transformed the workplace as we know it. It's not just mainstream anymore, it's the future of the working world, promising benefits like greater productivity for employees, more efficiency in the average team, and even... By Ashley Wilson09 Jul 2019
Resource Management What to Look for When You Are Searching For A New Job? Let's discuss some thoughts on what an aspiring or transitional project manager should be looking for both in an organization and in a hiring manager. We'll look at the organization and focus on the hiring manager and the... By Anonym14 Mar 2019
Resource Management Make or Buy Analysis in 5 Easy Steps Last week I looked at the advantages and disadvantages of the ‘make or buy’decision. Remember, the ‘make or buy’ decision is where you decide if it’s better to do the task or make the product in-house or whether... By PMTips04 Feb 2019
Resource Management 3 Types of Essential Resources For Your Project When you start your project you need to consider what resources are required to get it done. It’s always best to ask for the things you need at the beginning, rather than getting stuck halfway through because you haven’t planned it... By PMTips29 Jan 2019
Resource Management 5 Reasons Why Projects Fail And What You Can Do... A quick trawl online will show you dozens of reasons why projects fail. Change of company direction, a poor business case and lack of strategy are amongst the reasons, and these are things that project managers can’t directly influence. By PMTips06 Oct 2017
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 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 2020 New Year Resolutions for Project Managers As a project manager, it can be rather difficult to entirely separate personal life from the job. Whether you want it or not, your mind is constantly pondering solutions for improving the work process of your team and getting better projects and... By Erika Rykun30 Dec 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 What Project Managers Need to Know About Cybersecurity Business owners aren’t the only ones who should invest in reforming the cybersecurity. Every team member shares the responsibility for data safety, but most importantly, project managers should pay careful attention to security threats and... By Anna Zvada14 Jan 2020
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management 2020 New Year Resolutions for Project Managers As a project manager, it can be rather difficult to entirely separate personal life from the job. Whether you want it or not, your mind is constantly pondering solutions for improving the work process of your team and getting better projects and... By Erika Rykun30 Dec 2019
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management 8 Ways on How to Write a Great Project Management Plan Every good project begins with a great project management plan. Without a plan, you don’t know where the project is going to lead, and what the steps are going to be to get there. A good plan is like a road map to the end goal of the... By Michael Dehoyos16 Dec 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 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 Elizabeth Harrin28 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