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The business justification for virtual teams is strong. They increase speed and agility and leverage expertise and vertical integration between organizations to make resources readily available. Virtual teams also lessen the disruption of people’s lives because people do not have to travel to meet. And in today’s business world that’s big.  That’s green.  Team members can also broaden their careers and perspectives by working across organizations and cultures and on a variety of projects and tasks.

The post is made possible by the great people at Seavus, creators of online Project Management tools such as Seavus Project Viewer.  Visit their site for more information. This article is based on information from Hooks and Farry’s book entitled, “Customer-Centered Products.” “Better, cheaper, faster!” “I want it yesterday!” Everyone out there has heard one ...

Let’s look closer at Scope Negotiations, Timeline Negotiations and Budget Negotiations, and how best to handle them with your customer.

There are lots of reasons why you’d set objectives for a project, not least because they help you establish what it is you are doing and when you are going to do it by. If you don’t have objectives, you can spend a lot of time working on things that really aren’t all that relevant to your project and that can be a massive waste of effort.

All projects generate a lot of information in the form of emails, documents, templates, reports and a host of other things.  Keeping on top of it all can be difficult.  A Project Management Information System (PMIS) can help.  The Project Management Institute defines a PMIS as: 

Many of us would class ourselves as project managers, and some of us aspire to be programme managers.  But is programme management just about managing bigger projects?  PMTips spoke to J. LeRoy Ward, author of Dictionary of Project Management Terms and Executive Vice President at ESI International, a global learning company.

Professional development is important for yourself and the company you work for. We explain why it is so important continuous professional development in this article. Let's dive in.

A variety of techniques can be used to eliminate distractions that will free up time to enable you to more productively manage multiple projects at once. 

More and more companies build scrum teams and choose Scrum Masters. In this post you'll find areas where this approach can bring maximum value to the project.