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Upping Your Project Management Game

Project management is an increasingly important role in business success as project become bigger and organizations rely on successful completion of projects more and more. Project managers need to continue to increase their value add and demonstrate benefit from their efforts. Up your project management game by following these best practices:   1. Get Your...

Too Many Project Collaboration Tools Create Complexity

“Hello, my name is ____ and I’m addicted to email.” For a lot of people, this isn’t really so much an addiction as just a day-to-day reality that ends up sucking hours out of our days and weeks out of years. Instead of connecting teams, tools like email make it more difficult to stay focused...

Mastering the Resource Dilemma [Excerpt and Infographic]

No one plans on letting project deadlines slip, missing business opportunities, or slowing innovation. Whether overcommitting or underutilizing, there is always a high price to pay for not using resources efficiently or focusing them on the most strategic efforts. Just how costly? According to a 2014 benchmark study of 480 planning and resource leaders from...

Are You Wasting Valuable Time Managing Projects?

How many hours a week are you wasting when it comes to day-to-day job stress, complex internal processes, and completing tasks outside your main role? The answer may depend on whether you live in Europe or the United States. In Europe, Project Managers report wasting up to three hours per week or 20 working days...

Optimizing Your Resources: Learn from the Military [Infographic]

Do you ever feel like you’re being asked to do battle with more and more projects with fewer and fewer resources? Don’t fall on your own sword! Look to the great military strategists – from Sun Tzu (500 BC) to Napoleon – for how to wage war with limited resources, and learn from these resource...