Your path to business agility
If you have any experience maintaining an agile team, then you know that being agile is more than just about having stand ups, Kanban board iteratives, and sprint-based deliveries. If your organization isn’t able to ensure that you have all the resources you need to succeed, you’ll quickly find yourself behind schedule at best, and...
As cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm and launched a major debate about whether it could actually shake up how finance and currency work, one field which has lagged sorely behind its pace of change is cryptocurrency law. In many fields of innovation, tight regulation early on might be seen as constricting and having...
“Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy, 1963. Change is hard on everyone. Even the more adaptable among us have a hard time changing the way they do their things. And that goes double for change in the...
One of the greatest questions constantly facing business owners, managers and individual employees is how to improve productivity at work. The theme is a multi-billion-dollar industry and has spawned thousands of help books and speaker tours, yet the solution might actually be one of the relatively simplest to implement – mindfulness. Mindfulness is a relatively...
New technology has radically altered how marketing teams function, not only in terms of on what and where they work but also how they work. Progressing from spreadsheet Gantt charts and basic early programs, online project management tools have become an essential piece of every successful marketing team’s operations. With most marketing departments moving towards...
Every project manager will have their own way of dealing with things that’s unique to them and their personality and experiences. However, more generally, we all fit into types of management styles. There are pros and cons to each of these and it’s always good to recognize which one you are so as to work...
Whatever field the project is in, but especially in IT and development, it’s an unwritten rule that the chance of receiving a last-minute change request is directly proportional to how perfectly everything is going. It’s easy to assume that a customer has seen the fruits of your hard work and, impressed by your effectiveness, now...
As noted by Psychology Today, burnout is a state of chronic stress that leads to: physical and emotional exhaustion; cynicism and detachment; and feelings of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment. Obviously, it’s both compassionate and strategic for enterprises to have a clearer picture of project managers who are at-risk of burning out — or have...
Deciding to become a full-time project manager comes with plenty of perks. Project management is a field that offers tons of opportunity and flexibility in terms of job outlook, salary and locating, and it’s a career that keeps most everyone on their toes. That said, figuring out which industry to work in can be stressful,...
For many new or aspiring project managers, enterprise project management is the “big show.” Managing large, complex projects for a huge organization is exciting and rewarding in a way that smaller-scale project management can’t quite match. At the same time, managing projects at the enterprise level is also highly demanding, regardless of the methodology. If...
