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
Risk Management Try to Avoid These 8 Common Mistakes When Estimating I think that accurately estimating IT work is a combination of experience, natural gift, and luck. With natural gift (think, big picture vision) and experience as being the two biggest factors. And your estimate can really only be as... By PMtips15 Mar 2019
Risk Management Visualization of Risks and Uncertainties One of the challenges of project risk analysis is creating visualizations that provide relevant information in a format that is easily understood by the intended audience. By PMTips11 Mar 2019
Risk Management How to Review the Project Status In this article, we will look at five key areas of any project that you’ll generally want to track as part of the ongoing project status review process. By Darko Atanasov06 Mar 2019
Risk Management 5 Common Project Risks and What To Do About Them Staring at a blank risk log can be quite daunting! What is going to affect my project and what should I be planning to do about it? Let me help you get started with these 5 common project risks and what to do about them. By PMTips30 Jan 2019
Risk Management Defining Risk Management Risk management is one of those areas where the project manager and the project team can never really know too much or be too confident or be too prepared. By PMTips08 Jan 2019
Risk Management Shareholder Value at Risk is a Key Measure in Major... One of the biggest problems in major change management projects is what could be called a ‘Bermuda Triangle’ communications failure that occurs between Programme Director, Sponsor and CEO. In this article, you will read about tips on... By PMTips19 Mar 2018
Risk Management 10 Tips to Achieve Success at Project Management These tips, if followed well, will definitely help you to achieve success in project management. Read the full article. By PMTips29 Aug 2017
Risk Management Best Alternatives to Microsoft Project Microsoft Project is a pioneer technology for developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. Project Managers often look for alternatives to MS Project for different reasons... By PMTips24 Aug 2017
Risk Management How To Make Sense of Your Project Risks Here are three ways to make sense of your project risks and categorize them in ways that will make them much easier to manage. Which of these have you used – or do you use another system for keeping your risks in order? By PMTips08 May 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