Your path to business agility
One of the most interesting workplace trends of recent years is the shift toward more frequent job and career changes. While a typical professional of the 20th century might have stayed in the same role for decades, today’s employees are constantly on the lookout for new challenges and opportunities. Surveys show that the average millennial...
Stephen R. Covey once said that “All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blueprint of the desired outcome.” Elaborating on this notion, two key elements shine at the core of this thought, vision and planning. Vision...
As a product leader, I get the question all the time: “Do you use your own products?” The answer is, “Of course we do.” It’s certainly true, but up until this point, usage was mainly in a department by department basis, with each department using the product slightly different and not necessarily connected. To provide...
As the field of project management continues to evolve and diversify, an exciting new option has emerged for project managers who are looking for more variety and flexibility in their work: freelance project management. If you find yourself growing restless in your current PM position, or are searching for a unique way to break into...
Most thriving businesses owe their success to great systems of organization, collaboration and great management. Unsurprisingly, these are also just a few of the qualities that make a great project manager. Because of their growing importance in the marketplace, project managers are afforded a number of unique job opportunities in developing fields. For individuals looking...
Project status reports are the main medium of communication between your project and its various stakeholders. The regularity of the reporting can vary between weekly, biweekly, monthly or at set milestones in the project’s path. Whenever it is prepared and shared, the most important thing is that you, as project manager, are making use of...
Project baselining is a set of stored values — such as estimated budget, planned schedule and anticipated effort — that serve as a reference to help determine whether a project is on or off track. Here are four vital best practices to ensure that project baselining is an asset vs. a liability: Don’t wait until...
Knowing how to identify priorities at work and being able to pivot project resources to make sure they are addressed is a vitally important skill for any project manager. This workload prioritization can spell the difference between project success and failure, with the speed at which information is fed into the decision-making process and those...
One of the most common challenges that an enterprise project manager can expect to face is a lack of stakeholder engagement. Sooner or later, every project manager faces situations in which customers, executive sponsors, team members or other stakeholders seem to drift away from a project. Sometimes the problem is that other projects are pulling...
Projects using cross collaboration teams are fraught with peril. Research for the Harvard Business Review has found that 75% of cross-functional teams aren’t successful. Thus, it requires a skilled PM to be able to navigate the various risks associated with combining a multi-disciplinary team and achieve success for the project. We’ve taken a look at...
