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By now, most enterprise project managers have become accustomed to the challenges of managing large, diverse and decentralized project teams. While working with stakeholders in different cities or countries once posed a significant obstacle, modern project management and collaboration tools now enable teams to work productively across geographic and cultural boundaries. Another aspect of large...
Mark Twain once said “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter; it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightening.” Well, if Twain could see today’s business world — where instead of Huckleberry Finn navigating the Mississippi River, we have cross-functional teams navigating complex projects...
As a project manager, balancing and prioritizing is half the battle. You have to be able to assign tasks to team members in a way that makes the most of everyone’s limited time. This can be difficult, however, when your project stakeholders seem to want every single task to be a number one priority. When...
One of the many good things about being a project manager is that you never have to worry that your job will become obsolete. Even when the job market as a whole is challenging, employers are always looking for people with solid project management skills. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s easy to land a...
Many enterprises that use JIRA face a good news/bad news dilemma that invariably starts leaning away from the former, and heads dangerously towards the latter. The good news is that their engineers love JIRA’s agile tooling solution, and can’t (or won’t) imagine working without it. Whether they’re doing code reviews, task branching, continuous integration, new...
Published regularly, Forrester Waves use a rigorous and transparent methodology – including hands-on evaluations, surveys, product demos and customer reference calls – to compare vendors, so that professionals can make informed decisions for their organizations. In addition to its signature “Wave” graphic, Forrester also provides a spreadsheet-based tool for professionals to create shortlists based on...
Enterprise project teams simply can’t function without a high level of trust. From senior stakeholders to the least experienced team members, everyone needs to feel confident that they can rely on their teammates to keep the best interests of the project (and each other) in mind. Without active efforts by the project manager, it’s easy...
If you’re a non-technical person, managing development teams and technical projects can be difficult. Your project team members are working on tasks that you’ve never done yourself, using unfamiliar tools and speaking in jargon that that you don’t understand. It’s natural to worry that you won’t be able to build an accurate timeline or prioritize...
Do you and your team struggle with excessive workloads, tight deadlines and conflicting priorities? If so, the problem may be that you don’t say “no” often enough. Saying “no” in the workplace can be difficult. Many people fear that if they turn down requests or assignments, they may find themselves out of a job. It’s...
Few aspects of enterprise project management are as important, or as frustrating, as tracking the time employees and contractors spend on their work. Accurate time tracking is essential for determining budgets, estimating task durations, calculating project return on investment and many other key business processes. Unfortunately, team members often view time tracking as an annoyance,...
