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Cybercrime is becoming one of the biggest threats facing international business, with one major survey showing that 43% of businesses had been affected by it and the global cost of cybercrime is projected to rise to $6 trillion by 2021. Naturally, with it posing such an intense threat to businesses, project managers cannot just ignore...
Change management is not just an important methodology in project management, it is essential. While other popular management methodologies, such as Agile, Waterfall or PRINCE2 all have their own merits and are perfectly applicable to the right situations, change management can and should be applied across all organizations. The ability to adapt to new technology...
Knowing how to manage projects with proper resource management allocation is a key determining factor when achieving your organization’s goals. Learn more about the success Steven Wood, Project Portfolio Administrator, had when CO-OP Financial Services used portfolio and resource management to gain the much-needed insight to empower decisions about prioritizing resources, justifying staffing, and forecasting...
“‘Tech debt is taking a loan against next month’s income in order to buy a feature today”‘ The rollout of our founder and CEO Mik Kersten’s Flow Framework® has led me to a whole new understanding of how software should be built. At first, I wasn’t sure about the idea that there are four (and...
Sports and fashion are not always regarded as the best proving grounds for business models and new approaches, but sometimes they can be the perfect petri dish for innovation and disruption. The belief is that talent always wins, but in many cases, teams and companies can overcome a deficiency with an emphasis on ingenuity and...
The lack of transparency across many businesses means that major problems can go unnoticed and undealt with for a long time. On a project level this could be solved by getting better project management software, but on a national level it requires a much broader solution. The gender pay gap is just one such issue...
Do you know anyone, or any organization, that at the end of the year looked back at their annual plan and honestly said everything went according to plan? Did you ever have a year where nothing changed? No new competitors, no changes in market conditions, or budget cuts? Of course not. Plans that don’t anticipate...
If you want to change a habit that gets in your way, get ready to battle your own brain. The mind that creates good habits is the same one that thwarts them. Imagine an automatic response that you want to change. Say, for instance, obsessively checking email throughout the workday instead of setting aside blocks...
Knowing how to instill employee loyalty in your team is vital for a project to succeed. It means being able to keep your team together and focused on tasks, as well as inspiring confidence in leadership decisions and a willingness to give their maximum effort to see the project through. Employee loyalty also means that,...
Your organization’s ability to react quickly and pivot to changes and disruptions is crucial to remaining relevant to your customers. In a recent webcast, Planning Deconstructed, Heather Westomoreland, Planview Planning Capabilities Product Manager and Angie Sarmiento, Planview Solutions Marketing Manager discuss continuous planning and the steps organizations can take to have a more proactive role...
