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Five Ways to Develop Your Leadership Skills

One of the strongest qualities of a project manager is the fact that they know how to get things done, while one of the best qualities of a good leader is the fact that they know how to get people to do things. When it comes to project management and leadership it all comes down...

3 Tips for Improving Collaboration in Marketing Projects

Effective marketing, without question, is a collaborative effort. To be successful, your campaign must be a 360-degree strategy incorporating research, graphics, copy, user experience, analytics, and more. Because each of these functions requires a very different kind of brain, an effective marketing team generally has several people involved in any given project. So if you’re...

Automate Cross-Application Workflows with Planview AdaptiveWork Go & Zapier

There’s an application for everything these days, and in fact  Enterprises have so many systems and tools installed that this environment has spawned a whole new marketplace for Application Integration Platforms. Companies like Zapier, Workato, Jitterbit, MuleSoft and Informatica (just to name a few) have stepped in and offer a way for organizations to easily...

PMs Who Procrastinate: Here’s Why and How to Stop

Many people associate procrastination with laziness. There’s a misconception that procrastinators are inherently less driven or ambitious than others, because they can’t seem to sit down and get done what they need to get done. The truth is procrastination has many causes that far exceed laziness. One of the greatest time management tips for work...

What is a Project Champion?

Working in project management comes with its own set of buzzwords you need to get familiar with if you want to stay relevant. At Planview AdaptiveWork, we’re here to make sure you’re up-to-date on the latest terminology, so you can “walk the walk” and “talk the talk,” so to say. One of the terms you...

Empower Impactful Collaboration with Planview AdaptiveWork Go for MS Teams

Planview AdaptiveWork Go is purpose-built to allow you to work the way you want.  This ideology is on full display within the product, as you can execute in either Scrum, Kanban or Scrumban styles depending on the work which needs to be done. This theme also persists in the way that Planview AdaptiveWork Go plays...

Are You Suffering from Virtual Meeting Fatigue? Here’s Your Game Plan

Before the coronavirus pandemic, virtual meetings were scheduled around work. Now, it seems as though work is scheduled around virtual meetings. And while I’m as pro-technology as anyone — especially when it comes to solutions that eliminate geographic barriers — I’ll admit that I’m suffering from virtual meeting fatigue. What’s more, while I like virtual...

What Excel is Good For – And What It’s Not

Most businesses today care about efficiency. Not just because of all the things a company can achieve when you work smarter, but because of all the time that opens up for you to spend on family, friends, hobbies, travel, and a full and rich life outside of work. One of the biggest productivity obstacles that...

How to Streamline Your Web Design Projects

As with any project, it’s ideal to keep your web design work as efficient as possible. The less time and revision you put into a given project, the more profitable it is. Since the primary goal of most companies is to increase revenue, web design project efficiency should be at the core of your processes....

How WIP Limits Can Rescue Troubled Agile Teams

In theory, agile is an approach and mindset that helps teams respond more effectively to change, and exploit (rather than avoid) continuous feedback loops to deliver products faster, better, cheaper, and with greater customer satisfaction. What’s not to love about this? Yet in practice, many agile teams are struggling rather than thriving — and more...