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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...
By integrating Atlassian Jira and Micro Focus ALM, you can automate the flow of defects between the two tools to eradicate manual overhead and accelerate the speed and accuracy of the defect reporting and resolution process. Long gone are the days when defect management was solely the concern of IT teams. With software touching nearly...
Votre organisation a-t-elle évolué en ce qui concerne la façon dont le travail est effectué ? Les BGP se rendent rapidement compte que dans le monde du travail en évolution d'aujourd'hui, ce n'est pas vraiment les méthodologies utilisées pour faire le travail qui ont un impact sur les résultats, mais il s'agit d'adopter une approche hybride des portefeuilles - en donnant aux équipes le pouvoir d'utiliser les méthodes et les processus qui...
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...
In our last post, we shared the differences between traditional portfolio management and the Lean Portfolio Management approach and why they matter for organizations looking to embrace agility at the enterprise level. At some point, efforts to increase agility will be stunted by traditional portfolio management practices, and it’s not enough to simply improve workflow management...
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...
