How to Manage Multiple Project Management Methodologies

As the role of project management continues to expand, the ways in which tasks are carried out can be assigned to a multitude of methodologies. A recent study on the state of Project Management in Manufacturing reported that 74% of respondents that experienced a high level of success used a variety of methods to get...

Advance Enterprise Agility in 2021

With organizations globally making a rapid shift to remote work, many businesses are starting to embrace enterprise agility to work cross-functionally to better plan and deliver value to customers, faster. It’s important that organizations become familiar with Agile transformation, Lean budgeting, and Lean Portfolio Management to maximize the success of their transformation journey. We produced...

What is Capacity Planning? Plus How to Do It Well

What is Capacity Planning? Capacity planning is, at its most basic level, a means of measuring how many employee hours are available compared to the needs of current projects. A team or organization’s capacity for work can then be simply measured on an hours per week basis. Let’s take a look at an example: The...

Atlassian’s Journey to the Cloud: Why You Need Enterprise-Grade Toolchain Integration

Atlassian’s latest announcement around its Cloud strategy is a great example of how your software delivery toolchain is a living and breathing platform. One that is perpetually influenced by the evolution of existing tools, the arrival of new tools, and the departure of legacy platforms. It is also a stark reminder that you need to...

How to be a Successful Project Manager

Project management is hard work. Even seasoned veterans with years learning how to be a successful project manager have occasional setbacks. Even when you’ve planned and executed things perfectly, the unexpected could happen. How you respond to those problems could be the difference between steering your project on course or watching it come to a...

Six Tips for Making an Effective Project Timeline

Before any project can begin with its tasks and deliverables it must go through a planning stage. One of the most important elements of this is the creation of the project timeline. While the features of a timeline, such as the major dates, events and deliverables are probably obvious to most project managers, knowing how...

How to become a project manager: education, training, & experience

Project management is one of the most appealing career opportunities available today. Project managers are in demand in essentially every industry and in every country, with strong growth predicted through the end of the decade and beyond. Whether you’re still in school and pondering your job prospects, or you’ve been in the workforce for years...

How Can Untrained Project Managers Succeed at Managing Projects?

Despite the growing number of certified, highly-skilled project managers, there simply aren’t enough experienced project managers to go around. Even organizations that place a high priority on hiring and training top-notch project managers often need to place a relatively inexperienced employee at the helm of a project from time to time. If you’ve recently been...

Debunking the myths surrounding project management as a career

It’s no secret that project management is one of the most popular career choices in the present day job market. However, as project management opportunities continue to expand around the globe, myths and misunderstandings about project management as a career have also become more numerous. If you’re considering a career in project management, chances are...

10 Ways to Earn PDUs and Maintain Your PMP Certification

Certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs) are required to earn 60 professional development units (PDUs) during each three-year certification cycle. In the distant past, many PMPs found this obligation expensive and stressful. However, in recent years some changes to the requirements have made earning PDUs easier, more enjoyable, and in many cases free. Once you’ve put...