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If you’re in a position of leadership, whether you are a project manager, or have direct reports, chances are you have experienced navigating a difficult conversation with a colleague, or with a client. Perhaps you…

Businesses today get a significant amount of work done through project teams that draw membership from departments and functions throughout the company. These teams are defined as matrix structures. Typically project teams are formed for a…

Have you ever wished you had a short checklist of things to keep in mind as you manage projects? Would this short list contain key measures that, when kept in check, would lead to project success?

In addition to following industry…

There are many reasons why projects fail, but there are a few common causes that can lead to the downfall of even the most well-planned endeavor.

In this article, we've explored some of the most common reasons why projects fail, and what…

The project manager mindset is a cornerstone to success in the field of project management. This mindset is characterized by a solid understanding of the discipline, the ability to select the appropriate tools, and the understanding of how to…

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…

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…

By Gareth Byatt, Gary Hamilton and Jeff Hodgkinson

Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs as generally referred to by all of us, are a powerful tool at the project manager’s disposition that can, if structured appropriately:

• Play an important role in driving the behaviours and actions undertaken on a project
• Have a significant effect on the reporting and monitoring of a project’s progress.

Our article does…

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…