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For today’s enterprise project manager, data is everything. Team members need detailed information on their assigned tasks and the resources available in order to do their work, and senior leaders need accurate reporting in order to determine whether a project is on track to meet its objective. Project managers themselves need to gather and process...
Are you ready for 2017? Not if you plan on doing everything like you did in 2016. Generational shifts changing the workforce and the digitization of every industry has created an ever increasing pace of innovation … and disruption. What does that mean for organizations? The rules are different. The work place has changed. You...
Enterprise project management is intensely demanding work. Keeping track of dozens of project tasks, team members and other stakeholders can be overwhelming, even when a project is progressing well. Fortunately, if you develop the right approach to your work, you can stay on top of any project, no matter how large or complex. Let’s take...
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...
