EDITOR'S PICK 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 Harrin 28 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... Is your remote team engaged with their work? Are they productive and happy? If not, it’s crucial to focus on what you, as a project manager, can do to improve things. Keeping remote team members happy and engaged can be tricky. In the... 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 5 Reasons to Baseline Your Plan These days, project teams have to deal with emerging requirements on projects because our world simply doesn’t stand still. By PMTips05 Sep 2018
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Planning 3 Reasons Why You Should Plan Your Testing Phase Experienced project managers know that testing is one of the project phases that gets squeezed at the last minute, especially on projects being managed in a waterfall environment. By PMTips31 Jul 2018
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Management Project Dashboards 101 Did you know that the term ‘dashboard’ comes from the part of a horse-drawn cart that stopped the driver being splashed with mud from the horses’ hooves? Today, you’ll have a dashboard in your car and you may also have one... By PMTips26 May 2016
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES 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. By PMTips18 May 2016
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 Management Choosing an Approach for Your Change Initiatives There are a number of different approaches to delivering change initiatives available these days. However, some of the techniques are the same, but what is important is the different way these techniques are employed, which I will explain later... By Antony della Porta26 Aug 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
EDITOR'S PICK ARTICLES Project Planning The Construction PM Life Cycle A quick overview of a construction project life cycle to allow us to compare it in our heads to what we normally see on a daily basis in our IT engagements. Read the full article. By PMTips14 Mar 2019