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The key to a successful project is in the planning. Creating a project plan is the first thing you should do when undertaking any kind of project.

Often project planning is ignored in favour of getting on with the work. However, many…

It is not a rare occurrence to find people in the wrong job or profession. One reason could be that they just love the social attributes of the job. Some are in the job because they have not been able to get anything…

Managing your team should be easy because you’re dealing with trained professionals, right?  But that's not to say there won’t be difficult personalities along the way.  Our project resources are skilled professionals…with egos.  Each has their…

An important part of project success is effectively communicating status of the project to internal stakeholders. These project briefings are important whether you are the only one working on the project or when you are part of a team, and…

Good project planning is like the construction of a recipe for a favorite cake. If every component is done correctly you end up with a great end result. Make shortcuts or mistakes along the way and you risk…

Innovation is a popular buzzword in business at the moment.  Any number of articles are published in business publications about how to make an innovation culture in a company. 

Innovation executives have been appointed, culture change…

Sometimes, a project manager must deal with a disgruntled client. They may be unhappy with one thing or many things, but if their feelings are strong enough to make a complaint then that complaint needs to be properly and fairly dealt…

The concept Project integration management is a key skill that is the tightly woven into the PM industry standard processes laid out by the Project Management Institute (PMI).  As defined by PMI, project integration management are the processes…

Here’s the thing about project plans—they won’t necessarily stop things from going awry.

With over 350+ project management systems on the market, it can be hard to know what distinguishes one system from another and which is right for you.

To help you better understand how the most popular project management systems stack up…

Projects sometimes fail because team members don’t focus on the right activities and drift into tasks that don’t contribute to project success. A way to mitigate this is to organize the IT project as a set of milestones and related deliverables. Deliverables may be things like documents, code deliverables, or configured environments.

Each deliverable should have associated acceptance criteria and a sign-off process. The project thus consists only of producing the deliverables. This…

You know how the old saying goes.  “The customer is always right!”  How many times have you heard that expressed over and over again by a disgruntled customer or friend who feels they received less than a fair deal from some vendor?  Now think about that in terms of a project engagement where tens of thousands of dollars and possibly even millions of dollars are at stake.  How do you think that paying customer feels about service and being told they’re not always right?

Usually the…

Project Management 2.0 is a different take on project management that was come into thought based on technology that enables a thriving remote work environment.  What does it mean?  Is it different than what you’ve been doing?  Do I care about it?  What are the pros and cons?  Those are some of the usual questions that arise when this concept is presented.  Let’s discuss.

What is it?

Project Management 2.0 isn't really that significant of a change from regular…