Project Communications Planning: How Project Managers Keep the Project Team (and Stakeholders) Aligned
Learn how project managers plan and manage project communications, choose tools, define requirements, and maintain alignment across stakeholders.
What Project Management Tools Enable Automation?
For as much as many have embraced the possibility of AI-enabled automation in project management, there are many who don't know how to make that a reality. Here's a look at several tools that...
Leadership Is Taken, Not Given
Project managers face a paradox: leading without leverage. Read how to navigate this seeming contradiction.
What Is Scope Planning?
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide identifies four processes involved in the overall project definition process: project initiation, scope planning, scope definition, and scope verification. Our last post covered project initiation. This...
4 Ways to Build a Culture of Project Success
This article was originally published on ReadWrite When people think about the effects of project failure, they usually think of the budget–which is warranted. A PMI survey found that, on average, poor project performance can...
Evolve or Die! Two keys to coming out ahead in “unprecedented times”
During attritive economic times, luck alone doesn’t determine which organizations survive and which become extinct. Companies, like organisms, go through a process of survival of the fittest where those most attuned to the economic...
Failure Is Not an Option: And executives are sick of being told otherwise
In a world of “Move fast and break things” it should come as no surprise that malpractice is rife in the project world. Executives are told to accept failure, and that’s exactly what they’re...
Driving Engagement through (Positive) Attention
The Hawthorne Time and Motion studies were some of the most important studies on team management. They were conducted to see what makes people productive. The environment was changed to make it bright, cheery,...